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...verse, his voice has dropped an octave to whisper, "And it's all over now, Baby Blue." We also adopted Dylan's dismissal of the clueless - "Something is happening but you don't know what it is, / Do you, Mr. Jones?" - in "Ballad of a Thin Man." The ultimate shrug-off came from "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right": "You just sorta wasted my precious time...
...reach the village of Nyarukamba in western Uganda, visitors have to clamber up a thin, almost vertical dirt track. It's not the kind of place you would expect to find subsistence farmers surfing the Web with wi-fi computers or making VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls. But that's exactly what the village's 800 or so inhabitants have been doing--thanks to a wireless, solar-powered communications system installed in the Ruwenzori mountains by Inveneo, a San Francisco nonprofit...
...there are ways to lower your risk: stay hydrated (by drinking plenty of water and laying off alcohol and caffeine), move around as much as possible, avoid sleeping pills that knock you out, consider wearing support hose to improve circulation, and ask your doctor about taking aspirin to thin your blood...
Meet Kelsey Grammer: nice guy, big square face, velvety voice, sandy hair going thin in front. He's tall, over 6 ft., with broad shoulders, but strolling around the lobby of a Manhattan hotel, Grammer, 51, looks almost insubstantial. Or less substantial than the ghost that haunts...
...Hayden's tenure as head of the National Security Agency, when he was involved in the Bush Administration's programs that allowed warrantless intercepts of some domestic phone calls and a recently disclosed program that reportedly compiled the phone records of millions of Americans. And on those questions, the thin, balding Hayden, dressed in his Air Force uniform, appeared to follow the playbook of many administration officials testifying in front of Congress: say nothing. The nomineed refused to discuss almost any details of the intercept program in public, deferring discussion of them until a later, closed session with Intelligence Committee...