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...frozen long enough to notice the man carried a one-and-a-half-foot machine gun while moving along a low brick wall that led to the college's main entrance. Lu and LeBleu abandoned their lunch and sped away. Lu dialled 911 at exactly...
...storms sweep men off deck. Their only connections to the rest of the world are radios and unreliable cellular phone reception.And the shrimpers themselves are notorious, too. After trying day labor and construction, they often drift to this profession, where there is no boss but the ocean. As we sped farther into the Gulf, Chris scrutinized the regional section of the paper. He wanted to see his friends’ names, he joked.I worked with the people who photographed and wrote that section. They had told me to run background checks on any shrimpers I rode with. Sure, sure...
...other side. Everything seems to move faster nowadays: letters gave way BlackBerrys, caravels to Airbuses, and courting seasons to one-night-stands. A sort of immaterial internal combustion engine must have changed the world faster than time changed Borges. History—personal and collective—has sped up, and the battle for how the past is remembered has intensified. A historian might fight it for the dismembered British Empire, Christians for their often misinterpreted savior, and a bored girlfriend for the idyllic first date. But that old cliché about controlling the past only to control the present...
...side road so that Ali could hand over his Lebanese mobile-phone chip to a friend heading into the country. The delay turned out to be a godsend. When Ali started the car again, it was to flee the bombs hitting the main road on our right. We sped away with the other cars, and I watched people running away on foot from the rear window as Ali reminded me to praise God for our safety...
During the Web's infancy---long before Google was a site, let alone a verb--AOL reigned supreme and alone. But 17 years after modems squawked onto the debut dial-ups, competition has sped ahead, and AOL may finally be ditching its once lucrative subscription model for a more promising ad-driven approach...