Word: stored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...venerable rotary telephones are invulnerable to power failures because they contain, like others of their vintage, small electric generators powered by their dials. Fryer kept the clunky phones out of old-fashioned thriftiness, not grim survivalism, and now he's glad he did. Says Fryer: "Everything in the store is analog, from the adding machines to the handwritten account books. They worked, so I didn't see any reason to change them...
...long until Y2K, even for those who can't wait, but the projected Dark Age has already revealed at least one bright spot. At Safe-Trek, the Bozeman survival store Rudy is associated with, demand for Y2K foodstuffs is so great that management has turned its on-site shooting range into a canning plant. Guns into blueberries, in other words. "I think of myself as being a good scout," Rudy cheerfully reflects. "It used to be helping little old ladies across the street. Now it's helping little old ladies get their food reserves...
...ever worry that you're not watching enough TV? Two new appliances, from Replay Networks ($699) and TiVo ($499), will help when they debut in the spring. The devices are slightly bigger than a VCR; each houses a huge hard drive that will store eight hours or so of programming. They attach to phone lines through which TV guides are constantly transmitted. Programming is as simple as calling up the week's listings, pointing and clicking...
Their theory, according to the proposal circulated to publishing houses, is that obesity and the diseases associated with it are caused by burning the candle at both ends. The idea is that one's body is continually tricked into thinking it's summer, and thus it wants to store up fat for winter. Sleep more, the authors claim, and you'll lose weight. This will no doubt be controversial among scientists and personal trainers and welcomed by almost everyone else...
While Grogan might be a Massachusetts insider,he has a vast store of knowledge about Washington,Casey says...