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...Angry Men dissuades his 11 fellow jurors from making an unfair murder conviction. Like a young Fonda, I would weigh the evidence with a care that would make up for inadequate public defenders. Like a young Henry Fonda I would stalk over to fellow jurors playing tic-tac-toe, roar “This isn’t a game,” and stalk back to my chair while crumpling the tic-tac-toe board in one noble hand...
...geeky to superfreaky? Gadgetmakers made them smaller, cheaper, simpler and sexier. Case in point: Sony's new Cybershot U DSC-U10 ($200) is just 4 in. long and weighs a mere 4 oz., and it's finished in a delicious pearlescent white--you want to pop it like a Tic Tac. It's great for taking snapshots and pix for the Web, but if you want some-thing more high powered, try Casio's Exilim EX-S2 ($300), available later this month. It's the size of a credit card and almost as thin, but it has digital zoom...
...this regular scholastic observation of moments of silence that is partially responsible for the profanation of memorial moments of silence. If you fashion spitballs or play covert games of solitaire tic-tac-toe during most moments of silence, it is difficult to muster deeply-felt feelings for exceptional ones. You are desensitized to whatever symbolic weight a moment of silence might once have...
This verbal tic is particularly specific to America. I remember coming here from England and being stunned by the way in which my far more articulate and educated contemporaries peppered their statements with this pointless word. Despite my best efforts to avoid this affliction, I discovered that “like” is completely contagious. While at home over winter break I mentioned that I was “like” so excited to be back in England. My father, always a stickler for pure language pulled the car over and asked if I wanted to get back...
...International Trade Commission, no gum arabic was imported from Canada between 1996 and 2000. The level of concern over the safety of gum arabic in foods should be no less and no greater than that for any other food ingredient processed in the U.S. STEPHEN A. ANDON, PRESIDENT TIC Gums Belcamp...