Word: slivering
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...Christopher Buckley's peek into the totally wired society of the future is to be believed [VIEWPOINT, May 29], as it should be, the only people who retain a sliver of civility will be those we now regard as uncivilized--the ones who will not have had the opportunity to choose a personal digital assistant as their master. Orwell had it right. ERNEST M. HALLE Pittsburgh...
...Wallace (Microsoft's employee No. 9). DanceSafe sets up tables at raves, where users can get information about drugs and also have ecstasy pills tested. (The organization works with police so that ravers who produce pills for testing won't be arrested.) A DanceSafe worker shaves off a sliver of the tablet and drops a solution onto it; if it doesn't turn black quickly, it's not MDMA...
Thandie Newton is stretched out--shoeless, a sliver of a round tummy showing--on a divan at the snooty Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. She is gossiping mercilessly about filmdom's high and mighty (who has a potty mouth, who is a racist), trashing the town's powerful directors, ridiculing scripts (wait till you hear about Hottentot Venus) and dishing just as much about herself--a girl born in Britain, with a plummy British accent and skin the color of caffe latte. Taking tea with Thandie (pronounced Tan-dee) turns out to be a jolt of caffeine straight...
...makes an appearance in the form of a remix of Eric B. and Rakim's 1987 "Paid In Full." The album tries too hard, however, to capture the basic starkness of the film: the dark remixes of David Bowie and the Cure are wholly unpleasant, as is the new sliver of a song from Daniel Ash called "Trouble...
...long term, I am convinced, the quenching of life's exuberance will be more consequential to humanity than all of present-day global warming, ozone depletion and pollution combined. Why? For practical reasons, if nothing else. Humanity's food supply comes from a dangerously narrow sliver of biodiversity. Throughout history, people have cultivated or gathered 7,000 plant species for food. Today only 20 species provide 90% of the world's food and three--maize, wheat and rice--supply more than half. Tens of thousands of species of the world's still surviving flora can be bred or provide genes...