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...they all be squeezed into a single, all-purpose package -- a kind of pocket- size portable office -- that would let brokers buy and sell from a restaurant table, lawyers check precedents from a courtroom, doctors check lab results from a golf course, and salesmen close deals from a trout stream? Given the rapid advances in semiconductors, cellular communications and battery-power management, this dream is almost within reach...
...hats and boots made from cute animals. One senses a moral cancer beneath the surface: the all-American spirit of the music, far from including all Americans, actually seems a form of exclusion for people and issues. For years, the androgynous singer k.d. lang was locked out of main-stream country. Garth Brooks caught flak for a video that dared deal with domestic violence...
...Bush thought this act of arrogance would silence Walsh, he is finding that he was wrong. I have no idea where Walsh gets the energy to persevere in his efforts when he has heard a constant stream of lies from the government that hired him to learn the truth...
...unchained. So it was last week, with holiday schedules busy and tempers already frayed, as one of the fiercest storms of the century hit the East Coast. Record coastal floods and snowfalls -- nearly 3 ft. in parts of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts -- resulted when a 170-m.p.h. jet stream collided with a storm that had caused tornadoes in California, then skimmed along the Gulf Coast and out to sea before doubling lethally back. Though it was no Hurricane Andrew, at least a dozen people were killed and many thousands evacuated -- some from flooded rail stations and Wall Street lobbies...
Admittedly, A Gilded Lapse of Time does have its faults--Schnackenberg tends to run on in a poetic stream of consciousness, sometimes at the expense of coherence. It's easy to get lost in the flow of language. The attractive thing about this book is that getting lost is not such a bad thing--Schnackenberg's words sing with a lyric beauty independent of underlying meaning...