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...Redmond, Wash., didn't have enough trouble, counterfeit copies of Microsoft's Windows 98 have landed in the U.S. The company has this warning: check your disc. True copies have a hologram near the hole in the middle that flips from "genuine" to "Microsoft," plus a heat-sensitive thread woven into the certificate of authenticity. A fake might work, but if it malfunctions, tech support won't be able to do a thing...
...Fogg is not one to be raced through. It requires concentration. You have to be, unlike me, willing to read all of the fine print. My first time visiting the exhibit, I walked through the hallway and one room a bit confused. I could not ascertain what the thread was that linked these varied Renaissance prints together. I was totally oblivious to the point being made...
...Evening is fundamentally a revision of the timeworn cliché, "I saw my life passing before my eyes." The central thread at work is Ann's extended flashback of the summer weekend in which she met Harris Arden, a weekend which draws itself out over the entire novel in a lush, lingering continuum of heightened sensations, the country setting of water and trees providing the perfect isolated arena for Ann's realizations about life to flower. For the first time, she realizes that "falling in love" can mean talking control of one's own life. In Ann's words, "Every...
...common thread is that the members of this new boomer bulge have the financial stability to retire comfortably and interests and passion that are leading them in new directions. About one-quarter to one-half of all clients seeking the help of financial planners these days are early retirees between the ages of 50 and 55, notes Michael Chasnoff, a Cincinnati, Ohio, financial planner and chairman of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), which represents fee-only planners. And of the 20 million or so self-employed people...
...tales more than those of C.S. Forester and his Horatio Hornblower. Conrad's prevailing mood is darker; though O'Brian can summon darkness and defeat, he is more arch and owlish. But as Forester did, O'Brian novelizes serially. The precarious lives of two memorable characters, friends and shipmates, thread through his books...