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...there a greater social purpose behind the recent flash mob craze than releasing steam in these stressful post-Sept. 11 days? In a typical flash mob, scores of individuals convene with the help of instant messages and cell phones to await the often-zany instructions of their unknown leader. A San Francisco flash mob, for instance, was told to play a giant game of duck-duck-goose, and a Harvard Square flash mob flocked to the Harvard Coop this summer to ask for greeting cards for a friend named “Bill.” Since the first flash...
...blamed for the sins of the father than Arnold Schwarzenegger is. But Mel, who attends Latin Mass, is outspoken against the Vatican's reforms of the 1960s. Some say he saw The Passion as his own declaration of Catholic fundamentalism. He wanted to steamroller the new Catholic orthodoxy, not steam up a host of biblical scholars...
Electricity starts at the power plant, produced by a spinning generator driven by various means: a hydroelectric dam, a large diesel engine, a gas turbine or a steam turbine. The steam is created by burning coal, oil or natural gas or by a nuclear reactor...
...Take Dave, for example. As the carnival quietly ran out of steam on a Sunday night, he loomed like an apparition out of the "dance zone," poured beer on his naked chest, embraced me, tweaked my nipple and regarded me with saucer eyes. Here was authentic Koh Samui man, unabashed and raving. "Sorted mate," he said. "Effing sorted or what?" The carnival had made someone happy, anyway...
...adversary in the stock research dustup, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Late last December, Spitzer was trying to wind up a $1.4 billion settlement with 10 brokerages (including Citi) that had been accused of misleading clients with faulty stock research. Spitzer feared that the talks were losing steam, so one morning he insisted that the major firms send to his office someone empowered to make an immediate decision. Citi sent Prince and a team of lawyers. Spitzer issued his ultimatum: Sign the deal, or he would see them in court. "The lawyers wanted to push back," Spitzer recalls. "Prince...