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With 500,000 units sold since its 2002 debut, iRobot's vacuum cleaner the Roomba is a hit. But the new Roomba Discovery ($249) works even better. Its DirtDetect feature prompts the vacuum to spend more time on trouble areas. Smart sensors know when the sucker is stuck and help it dislodge. And the dustbin is three times as large. But in TIME's tests, the Discovery still got stuck on the edges of a rug and missed dust in corners. It's fun to watch, though. --By Anita Hamilton
...homeless man, Michael Parillo, told The Crimson that he had known Cicero for six months and was asking for change at his usual spot on Mass. Ave. when Cicero approached him shouting, “Run, sucker,” and “I’ll clean the streets. I’m starting with...
...Trusting Kim to play nice tends to be a sucker's bet. But Koizumi is willing to take the gamble, perhaps because his administration is being buffeted by an ever-widening scandal at home. Seven government ministers have admitted to skipping their payments into the national pension scheme, and last week Koizumi himself said he had, at times, failed to make payments before they became mandatory in 1986. A triumph in Pyongyang would be a welcome distraction. The automatic winner in the deal is Kim, who appears to have Japan's leader at his beck and call. But if Koizumi...
Lil’ Kim once advised, “What do you do when your man is untrue? You cut the sucker off and find someone new.” If only Julia Stiles’ Paige had honored Kim’s fine words, in the new film The Prince and Me, she wouldn’t have to undergo the central trial of deciding whether to become the Queen of Denmark or pursue her ambition of becoming a Doctor in Third World Countries...
That’s right, Sox nation. Your favorite MLB team just sucker-punched each and every last Harvard baseball player and his parents, and for no apparent reason. Isn’t it great...