Word: stores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Consider, then, CVS (the bigger one, close to Store 24). You may want to start with Toiletries since the price is right for tissues, soap, shampoo and sunscreen and (let's not forget) deodorant. And they do have fans...
Paper has always been the ideal technology for displaying information: It's easy to read, easy to carry, easy to store and hard to break. And thin ?- well, flat-panel monitors have nothing on paper. Now, realizing the lurid dreams science fiction writers have nurtured for decades, researchers are combining the best qualities of paper and the everyday computer monitor to produce electronic paper, and yesterday Xerox PARC and 3M announced an agreement to try to produce the stuff commercially. Can they make it happen...
Ramirez breaks into homes, but his intention is not to steal but to annihilate. That viciousness has cleared store shelves of guns in the small towns along the tracks that crisscross Texas. "Right now," says Cox, "Ramirez is the most wanted man in Texas. And he might be the most wanted...
...Dell, a machinist with an ugly rap sheet, was arrested and charged with rape and capital murder. He had been seen at the County Line the evening Schartner was killed, though not with her. Later he'd walked into a convenience store with blood on his face, hands and clothes--the result, he said, of a fight at another bar. There were no witnesses to the killing. But circumstantial evidence--including tire tracks consistent with those from O'Dell's car and tests of the blood on his clothing--seemed to link him to the crime...
...this year, three times as many as last year. Partly, that's owing to ever falling costs; you can now get a decent one for $250 or less. Another reason is the spread of MP3, the hugely popular standard for downloading music online. What better way to store your MP3 collection than on CDs? Blank CD-R discs (which can record only once) cost about $2 each and hold 650 MB of data. If you figure an average of 5 MB per MP3 tune, one disc holds about 130 songs. By any measure, that's a lot of tuneage...