Word: scrolls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Washington then presented Dunn with a scroll commemorating the capital campaign...
...came to Haven House, Lane controls her world by computer. The ALS Association of Georgia, with help from Lane's church, installed $2,000 worth of software in her omnipresent laptop. She can move her left shoulder enough to make her elbow control a mouse, allowing her to scroll through the alphabet--and communicate. Taped up on two walls of her room are one-page instructions to the staff that detail just how she is to be positioned at the computer and given drinks, including the angle of the straw in her mouth...
...deny my own voyeuristic fascination as I scroll down through the choices of men being offered one final moment of the "freedom" to be a consumer. Their choices, as diverse, poignant and sometimes just plain wacky as they are, offer clues to their identities and character. But perhaps that fascination is simply a kind of "desert island discs" game that calls on the reader to consider his or her own menu for a final meal. But even more fascinating than the contents of the site, perhaps, is the decision by the folks down at Huntsville to post this information...
...turn for taking only what I could carry--a few clothes, an Oriental scroll my wife had given me for my birthday--came on the third day of the war. North Korean planes, Soviet-built Yaks, had strafed the afternoon before, and our house was deserted, the servants gone. At the embassy, two jeep convoys were forming , one to join the American military advisers who were with what remained of the South Korean army, the other to find the government, which had evaporated. I was to have joined this group, but to my dismay, it had already left; perhaps...
...surf through CNN, the New York Times, Wired News, CNET, Slashdot and Time.com. These days I log on to one URL and pour my coffee while the page loads. By the time I return to my desk, every site on my daily list is ready to scroll through - no go-and-fetch web browsing one site at a time...