Word: slenderness
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...real? Yes. Is it ready for prime time? Maybe not. First, the good: There's a 40GB hard drive nestled behind an impressive 7-in. LCD screen. (For $200 more, you can get a 100GB version.) Though surprisingly slender, it's larger than any portable game system. The video-grabbing apparatus is actually a separate piece of hardware that you plug in on top of the unit, and it has video input as well as output, so you can watch what you're doing on a regular TV screen. The breakout box also has a jack for an infrared wire...
...most inaccessible terrain on earth. Cutting through mountain ranges, international borders, steamy jungles, swamps, lakes and flood plains, the Sepik monster nurtures some of p.n.g.'s most ancient tribes, who still live in tiny stilt huts and brave the river's treacherous currents, and large saltwater crocodiles, in their slender carved canoes...
...reached when one chump, trying to clarify an inane question about Hollywood mixing with sports, asked Indy driver Danica Patrick why she was at the show. Confused, she put her arms up and scanned the room for help. He thought she was an actress, and slender-shouldered and pretty though she is, the mistake was unforgivable...
...College for Women in Oxford, Ohio. Schwerner, son of a Pelham, N.Y. wigmaker and a graduate of Cornell, had been working for the Congress of Racial Equality in Meridian, Miss., since January, had volunteered to go up to Oxford to instruct Northern students in voter-registration techniques. Chancy, a slender young man from Meridian, had accompanied him. Goodman was the son of a New York City building contractor and a student at Queens College. All were working with the 400 volunteers sent into Mississippi by COFO to help register Negroes...
Sporting a smart bow tie and clad in his best dark blue suit, the slender young man with carefully combed hair was nervous as he approached the border checkpoint. Officially, his exit visa was for six months' study in Germany, but he knew that he would not return. His leather suitcase was packed with six shirts, half a dozen butterfly ties, several pairs of socks and a formal cutaway suit. Hidden in his impeccably polished shoes, however, were hundreds of American dollars. In post-revolutionary Russia, he feared being imprisoned or shot for currency smuggling. But it was too late...