Word: stream
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...Windows survives," says senior strategist Craig Mundie. The company expects us to continue buying PCs alongside our handy little mobile Net appliances. But it's also throwing buckets of money at research to make existing versions of Windows better, lighter and cheaper. Meanwhile, its hardware partners are planning a stream of funky little gadgets to seed with Microsoft's DNA. If Mundie has his way, "powered by Windows" will become the selling point for the '00s that "Intel inside...
...movement towards it. If the woman holds the key to the work, we may require more of her identity: does she represent a kind of social autobiography of the artist? The motion of the actor is already described: "Crossing the Rubicon" refers to Caesar's crossing of the small stream in Italy, beginning the war with Pompey. His words, "alea jacta est" or "the die is cast," have come to describe a point of no return. Lemieux's title describes the motion of a decisive step, at the beginning of some undertaking-perhaps playing on the Rubicon...
...immediately flashed the entire crowd, to the catcalls and cheers of all. Two girls, riding on the shoulders of a few men in the pit, began making out and groping each other for the delight of all the shirtless males in the place. For 20 minutes, a constant stream of (hardly) consenting women revealed their bodies to a crowd of meatheads. Entertainment has reached a new level of something, though I do not know what...
...attends a Teheran school for the blind and spends each summer with his sisters, his grandmother and his widower father. The boy not only loves nature, he seems blissfully wed to its sounds, scents and textures. He wants to catch the wind, learn the secrets of stones in a stream. A blind carpenter tells him that God is invisible, but that we can feel him in everything he created. The boy's life is an urgent quest to use his sensitive, educated hands to find these signs of God, these colors of paradise, on earth...
...indignation may have contributed to the latest numbers. Has service actually worsened again, or has heightened awareness of bad service made passengers more likely to complain about perceived slights? It doesn't really matter. The airlines are facing what should be a public relations nightmare, but even this latest stream of damning evidence doesn't hurt them that much. In its own mind, the industry has already demonstrated a good faith effort to improve the quality of air travel by issuing a proposed "Passenger Bill of Rights" in December. While it remains to be seen whether any actual improvements will...