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...were safe. From the next day forward, we thought otherwise. We bought gas masks and burned our mail, and flight attendants called in bomb threats to their airlines because they were scared to fly. People in Spencer, Iowa, began locking their doors, taking their keys out of their cars. Wal-Mart, which can race blankets, batteries and bottled water to any region hit by a hurricane or fire, ran out of the one thing everyone suddenly needed: a flag. Soon it was selling Little Patriots diapers. Spangle your baby's fanny with stars...
...American flags sold by Wal-Mart on Sept...
...American flags sold by Wal-Mart on Sept...
...geeks, many of whom showed up last week at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. But some of those geeks have realized there's money to be made from selling user-friendly versions of this powerful and supremely stable software to those who yearn for something better than Windows. Now Wal-Mart's website is selling $299 PCs that run on an operating system called Lindows (Microsoft is suing over the name), while another Linux brand called Lycoris Desktop LX is about to hit the shelves at CompUSA. The ubiquitous Linux logo, a penguin, is already a hit at places like...
...magazine work in the light-verse genus. In a 40-year career he wrote for Life and Look, for Harper's and Harper's Bazaar, for Woman's Day and Playboy, and even for Hallmark. And if Sam Walton has asked him to, Nash might have produced verse for Wal-mart, except that to force a rhyme he would've called it Wallmark. But his main place of business was The New Yorker, which over a period of 40 years, or approximately 520 moons, Published some 300 of his pieces as the verbal equivalent to their famous cartoons...