Word: slumbers
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...Microsoft is about to release a new version of its online software, in a market dominated by America Online, a division of the company that publishes TIME. And in the process it has done something not even Ted Turner could do: awaken AOL from its slumber and force it to offer its most inspired revision in years. I like MSN 8 better because it's smarter and cheaper. But the new AOL is also pretty cool. There's a lot of fluff in AOL 8--like 1,000 buddy icons, sounds and patterned backgrounds for instant messages--but there...
These days Seideman's concerns are focused on her own family. Her daughters go to more slumber parties, since the fear of suicide bombers discourages their band from loitering as they once did in crowded malls. After a bombing, Seideman knows she has less than 10 minutes to make sure all her loved ones are safe, before the cell-phone network crashes under the weight of panicked calls. She is worried that her daughters will leave Israel when they're old enough, fleeing the violence. A suicide bomb exploded outside her daughters' youth club last month...
Spaces decorator Doug Wilson, however, saw instead an Art Deco theater. The finished product included metal sconces, chocolate-brown curtains, sleek metallic chairs and seating platforms, complete with aisle lights, that pretty much ruled out slumber parties. At the "reveal" (the climactic moment when host Paige Davis unveils the remade room), Pitts forced a smile and almost immediately began planning to rip the whole thing...
...that the noisy ones are in the manse next door, blaring The Girl from Ipanema, and the Osbournes don't like it one bit. But this is not the best part of the episode. The family retaliates by blasting death metal on the stereo (while Ozzy snores away, his slumber safeguarded by decades of standing in front of deafening amp stacks) and throwing a ham over the hedges. But this is not the best part of the episode either. No, the best part is when a bleary-eyed Sharon and Jack reminisce about their favorite old neighbor: Pat Boone...
...long can Luang Prabang's slumber last? There are ominous signs of a rude awakening. In the old quarter's main street, Sisavangvong Road, tourists now outnumber locals. Satellite dishes bristle from roofs and backyards, sucking from the ether a steady stream of inane Thai game shows. Internet shops spring up daily, each filled with earnest backpackers clicking away. Highway 13 from Vientiane is now paved, putting the capital just a day's drive away...