Word: switch
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...legally divided--while maintaining its identity as a shared space--there are lessons to be learned from the thousands of Arabs who have figured out how to weave their way through Jerusalem's web of invisible barriers. They often dress like trendy young Israelis and, at army checkpoints, switch the car radio to Israeli music and speak a few words of Hebrew to soldiers. "I live in two different worlds," says Ammar Obaidat, who rose from gardener to head elephant keeper at the Tisch Family Zoological Gardens, "and I have to keep a balance between my work and traditions...
...here. The denial of licenses will not keep them from immigrating or even driving. If Spitzer’s policy had been implemented, terrorists would not have become more likely to open bank accounts and board airliners. DHS Chieftain Michael Chertoff ’75 more than sanctioned the switch, asserting that the New York license system would become “among the most secure in the country.” Special licenses that don’t require submission of proof of legal residency are not recognized at the federal level. They only allow the carrier to operate...
...company and $200 a year in fees to run it. Woo's business, the Compagnie Mauricienne de Textile, founded in 1986, is part of that boom. Its Port Louis factory is so big that workers use roller skates to get around in it, yet so nimble that it can switch from an order for 200 designer dresses to 200,000 Wal-Mart T shirts without missing a stitch...
...alarming for adults in all kinds of ways: kids suddenly want the same toys we have, which they understand better and use in ways we can't imagine. Parents once stayed up late on Christmas Eve assembling train sets. Now our children program our gadgets for us, surreptitiously switch our ring tones, leave notes on the screens. It's a dramatic reckoning with the inevitable transfer of power that occurs as children get older. It's their world now: we're just surfing through...
...atmosphere was very much that of a bullfight: once the contestants were released onto the course, nobody was quite sure what they would do. (For the record, every vehicle comes with a remote-control kill switch, which sits in the sweaty palms of a DARPA employee in a chase car.) The autobots moved slowly and haltingly, their computer brains thrashing furiously to interpret incoming visual data. But like polite student drivers, they stopped at every stop sign and signaled before every turn...