Word: silver
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...fears turned out to be groundless. The one emotion everyone showed was happiness to see me alive, maimed or not. But two exchanges stood out. My sister surprised me with a gift: a 1900 silver dollar our gambler father had won in Las Vegas and given to her in 1956 when she was 8 years...
...could miss my disability now. I put on a hook for Thanksgiving dinner and never took it off. It twisted into the end of my myoelectric prosthesis and turned 360? like an electronic hand. Only it worked better. Two silver talons opened like forceps, locked on to items and could pick a dime off the floor. Occasionally I screwed on a plastic, clawlike device known by the German word for grabber--Greifer--to move heavy objects, and I contemplated the long list of attachments--garden tools, spatulas, hammers and pool-shooting bridges--that were available by special order. I usually...
...access to other athletic facilities could all have been adequate adjustments. But now, instead of a student body looking forward to a new-and-improved MAC, the College has a pack of angry athletes on its hands.When it comes to this year’s new tailgate rules, meanwhile, silver lining is in fairly short supply. There’s no question that ID checks, pat-downs, and drink charges will put a damper on things. But here, again, there was no good reason for the College to transform its spokesmen into the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...
There were sexier announcements made by Steve Jobs last week, like the new line of nanos - super slenderized, brushed aluminum 4GB models that come in pink, green, blue and silver (for $199) and the bold black one ($249) with 8GB capacity. However, I thought the 80GB iPod was more situated at the center of Apple's big picture: movie downloads at the iTunes Store and a future in the living room. Once I had an 80GB iPod in my hand, I discovered that the wait for a living-room option wasn't as far off as Jobs had indicated...
...Boston Fish Pier: take the Red Line to South Station, transfer to the Silver Line (Outbound) to World Trade Center Station. Walk one block towards the NE on Viaduct St. Turn right on Northern Ave. $15 admission charge includes half-dozen oysters, and the first 300 shellfish aficionados get free t-shirts. 21+. Slurp...