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...Reuters news feeds are down is probably because of the same glitch that knocked out up to 90 percent of America's pagers, as well as various radio and TV broadcasts and even many card transactions at gas pumps and ATMs -- PanAmSat's Galaxy 4 satellite has gone a-wanderin'. After the failure of onboard control systems left technicians powerless to stop the key communications satellite from drifting out of position yesterday evening, the binary fabric of our electronic society began to unravel. To the relief of everyone from doctors on call to crack dealers, some pager service was restored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rogue Satellite Blanks Pagers | 5/20/1998 | See Source »

...course. Maybe the President was offended by some of the poems I wrote in the form of blues songs for Wanderin' Willie Clinton--I've Got the Movin' to the Middle 'Cause It's Slippery on the Edges Blues, for instance, or I've Got the Sorry That I Did Whatever Might Offend You Blues. Maybe he's aware that I've been scouring my brain for something that rhymes with Mochtar Riady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POETIC INJUSTICE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...also get random people who seem to wanderin off the street. A lot of policemen are intomartial arts books. It's kind of scary," Kaharasaid...

Author: By Jennifer L. Hanson, | Title: Obscure Textbooks Are Easy to Find | 10/2/1993 | See Source »

Some hobbyists enjoy the strange mix of oddly dignified and unsavory characters found in a flip-side world. Others like the colorful road names and don't-look-back life-style. Hopkins is "Santa Fe Bo." Tudor Williams is "Wanderin' Wills." Real hoboes they know include a man named "Wild, Wild Wes," who rides with a crow perched on his shoulder, and "Pepsodent Pete," who quit dentistry for the rails. Then there are those who may be starting the life. Thad ("Thunder") Thorton, 22, sits by the Colorado River and talks of being a late child of parents who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoboes From High-Rent Districts | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...shall..." explode! And we memorized the words. Ted Mack brought us The New Chad minstrels with the same voice that brought us Geritol. Even the little girl down the street was learning how to play "folk guitar" and guys with guitars on their backs were wanderin' clear 'round the country to find their way into "The Jackson Twins" comic strip. Meanwhile Joan Baez, Ganhdi's newest disciple of non-violence, sublimated herself into the path of low-energy resistance...

Author: By Dziga Vertov, | Title: Revolution... at 16 Frames Per Second | 7/28/1970 | See Source »

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