Word: slugged
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...Site Seeing Choose Your Virtual Weapon The U.S. TV show BattleBots, which last week started a run in the U.K., has a loyal cadre of fans who tune in to watch homemade robots slug it out until one of them is reduced to a pile of junk. Now BattleBots the website (www.battlebot.com) lets you put together a virtual robot, adding a tank tread here, a sawblade there, to see how it might look in action. As well as providing news of upcoming competitions, pro tips on bot-building and rules for entry, the site is one of the first...
...matching cowboy and cowgirl outfits!) as they enter a small town, and stop in front of the targeted bank. We wait impatiently with Cummins as Dall takes just a bit too long to complete his task - causing her to exit the car (while we remain seated inside) and slug a nosey cop. Once Dall is back inside, we flee from the police - not having eavesdropped so much as participated in the characters' crime spree. By largely confining his characters? criminal activities to a succession of cars - and virtually pinning them in the seats - Lewis succeeds here in not only creating...
...this week as you settle back to watch the Yankees and Mets slug it out for the title "Best Baseball Team in New York," think of the national teams Americans could be playing if they could only comprehend cricket. You could be competing against England, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, South Africa, The West Indies... Now THAT would be a World Series...
...long, as various models of biological and nanomolecular computing are looming rapidly in view. Rather than plug a piece of hardware into our gray matter, how much more elegant to extract some brain cells, plop them into a Petri dish and graft on various sorts of gelatinous computing goo. Slug it all back into the skull and watch it run on blood sugar, the way a human brain's supposed to. Get all the functions and features you want, without that clunky-junky 20th century hardware thing. You really don't need complicated glass to crunch numbers, and computing...
...Sell now. Sure, you could miss a move up, and yes, you'll trigger a tax liability. But don't be greedy. If you want to sleep, sell a slug quickly and ratchet down your tech exposure to a comfortable level--30% or so. Too drastic? Consider dollar-cost-averaging out of tech. By selling a set amount each month for, say, 12 months, you'll still benefit from any short-term rallies. The downside: you'll remain vulnerable to a tech sell...