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...earlier this year, Helen Hernandez planned to use her lunch break from her janitorial job to vote. Although she arrived without any identification, Hernandez expected a routine process at the polling place since she had voted regularly for nearly 50 years. The poll workers who greeted Hernandez, however, were unfamiliar with Indiana election law and failed not only to allow her to cast a vote without identification but also to provide her with a provisional ballot. Pressed by time and uncertain of her rights, Hernandez simply left...
...another big blow, Hurricane Frances. They watched with pride as half a dozen relatives caucused in delegations from Maryland, Connecticut, Missouri and Rhode Island. When Bill Marriott, the hotel impresario, sprang for a Bush-family dinner at the downtown Ritz-Carlton, 96 people jammed the room. "Lot of unfamiliar straphangers in there," declared the former President...
...Apple spokesman declined to discuss why iTunes is not offered in Asia, saying they don't talk about future marketing plans in the press. But according to industry experts, the added complexity of licensing music and handling digital rights in unfamiliar territories and fractured markets has dissuaded heavies such as iTunes, RealPlayer and Wal-Mart from catering to Asian users for now. Rampant online piracy in places like Taiwan and South Korea also means that many recording labels in Asia still view the Internet as an enemy, not a sales opportunity. They don't want to license tunes to online...
Today only about 2% of hospitals have this system in place. If the one you enter doesn't, request a list of every drug prescribed and find out what each one looks like. Don't be afraid to ask about an unfamiliar pill before swallowing...
...strange byproduct of this kind of death is learning how much you didn?t know about your friend. Phyllis occasionally referred in passing to her first husband, the actor Alexander Kirkland. His name and work were unfamiliar to me; but a glance at his career on IMDb and IBDb (Internet Broadway Database) opens a host of other connections in Phyllis? life, and raises a dozen questions that, alas, she can?t answer...