Word: tote
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Once a gadget like Apple's iPod achieves cult status, it swiftly spawns loads of accessories. These days there are plenty of ways to dress it up, tote it around and make it more useful. Here's a look at what I found...
...required texts that would pay for about fifty books I’d actually read voluntarily. “Reality,” of course, being the blatantly overpriced, overweight, overwhelming stacks of textbooks the Coop and the Science Center genially offer us every semester and which we tote home, gasping as we lug those slick white and red bags back to our rooms, where they will sit on our bookshelves—and, with luck, be read in the next few days before the midterms arrive...
...foreign ones with a standard adapter), airplane armrests or car cigarette-lighter sockets. And for an extra $19, iGo's less than imaginatively named Peripheral Powering System can simultaneously charge most handheld devices and mobile phones. The Juice comes with a sleek vinyl techno-Dopp kit, so you can tote your slimmer, trimmer recharger in style. Warning: although this company's products can adapt to virtually any major-brand mobile device, you'd better check the compatibility charts on igo.com...
Exiting the international airport in Colombo can be alarming: uniformed men tote guns, and there are acres of razor wire. Colombo's quaint commercial center is clogged with police checkpoints. President Chandrika Kumaratunga lives there; having survived an attempted assassination bombing three years ago, she's not taking any chances. In fact, there's little to fear. Nobody worries about bombs going off in Sri Lanka these days. You can travel just about anywhere on the island: to the northern peninsula of Jaffna or to the eastern beaches near Trincomalee, areas that were off limits for most of the past...
That is what they call circumstantial evidence, but the feds like their odds. In the meantime, track and tote operators say they are closing any potential security gaps, scouring their records for previous big payoffs and praying they don't find any more funny business as they try to assure U.S. horse bettors--not exactly a trusting lot--that the $14.5 billion they plunk down every year isn't being taken for an electronic ride...