Word: skirtings
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...Intel chip, 32 MB of ram and 16 MB of flash memory. Running the free Linux operating system, it features a picture-based touch -sensitive screen, multilingual text-to-speech capabilities and a writing pro-gram that differs enough from the Xerox-patented version used on Palm Pilots to skirt costly licensing fees. It allows e-mail and Net access, provided there is a working telephone line. All this, with smart card compatibility, powered by three AAA batteries and retailing, ideally, for the (relatively) low, low price...
...Moss or Gwyneth Paltrow. This is Emer Paul, fashion editor of U.K. Glamour. "Can we get your picture please?" someone asks. Before she can reply, the photographers begin snapping - zooming in for close-ups of her bag, sunglasses and shoes, always the shoes. "My shirt is Martin Margiela, my skirt is Miu Miu," she recites without prompting. "Who makes your shoes?" someone asks. She can't remember and slips off the sneaker pump to let them look at the label. Before the shoe is back on, they're after their next target. It's flattering to some, but not others...
...another level by the addition of all manner of fatal obstacles including trailers, other cars and pedestrians. Sewer covers fly and, in a nod to Marilyn Monroe’s (in)famous moment, the wind left in the wake of the race cars causes a woman’s skirt to flutter upwards...
...mother says he had a scar on his left calf. So every time Jewel meets a middle-aged American, she checks his leg, just in case. "I don't know what I will say if I meet him," she says, pulling the hem of her pink leather skirt down her thighs. "But I think I will say: 'Hello, I am your daughter. Welcome again to Angeles. We call it the city of Angels...
...quick to point out, stem cell research is currently hampered by the controversy surrounding the cells, which are generally culled from aborted fetuses or from embryos left behind after fertility treatments. If scientists can perfect a method of extracting stem cells from discarded (and decidedly uncontroversial) fat, they could skirt the ethical conundrum altogether...