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...gardeners dig in for a new season of planting, the billion-dollar horticulture industry is finding fresh ways to keep green things healthy and hobbyists happy. From pruning shears to watering cans, the latest buzz is about ergonomics and comfort. Here are a few of the coolest green-thumb gadgets...
...importance of greeting as many peoplestaff as well as internsas possible during the summer. Who knows, the staffers said, these contacts might be the key to a job in DC. Youll have a stack of business cards this high, one of them said, putting a considerable gap between her thumb and index finger...
...some practices, patients can get the results of physicals and EKGs and other data loaded onto a so-called thumb drive that plugs into a PC. Records can be updated on visits to specialists and beamed to other doctors...
...theater, but it's a surprisingly accurate system for rudimentary messages. But I wish that the VoiceMode capability extended to the extra text on picture or video mail, and I also that I could have used it when logged into AOL Instant Messenger. The alternative - straight-up thumb typing - isn't nearly as efficient, especially when using the phone's clumsy predictive text software...
...great amusements of Faculty meeting is University President Lawrence H. Summers’ thumb-twiddling. He makes fascinating patterns of ever-increasing complexity with his fingers on the table. He speaks for two reasons. The first is to contradict (and, recently, to express contrition), usually beginning with “Let me just say that…” and often devolving into an economics metaphor. The second is as chair, where he employs a unique insensitivity to parliamentary procedure. Summers’ poor grasp of the rules has caused such confusion that votes on simple matters with unanimous...