Word: wanderings
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...feet from the iPod itself, this is really for close-in convenience. Instead of having a cord dangling awkwardly from your head down to your pocket, purse or backpack, you have the freedom to hide your iPod away. Set your playlist, drop it in your bag, then wander around, letting people on the sidewalk, at the gym or on the bus wonder where your music comes from...
Costa Rica, this is your compassion, your solution to the inconvenience of human frailty: hide them, stuff them under beds, lock them in closets, stow them away in the attic, like household mess that has been hastily shoved out of sight right before the company arrives. Let them wander the streets in the darkness, in the rain, alone...
...route through the forest is being carved by 3,400 Gabonese workers and 400 expatriates. Drawn from 19 European construction companies and working for a consortium called Eurotrag, the expats are, for the most part, the kind of tattooed roustabouts who wander from job to job, now building dams in Iran, now forging roads through the Amazon. In Gabon, they live--some with families, some alone--in five camps near the work site. The bases have medical clinics, schools and swimming pools; fresh vegetables, meat and delicacies are flown...
...account, by political nincompoops who never grasped what policy was all about. He has hardly met another presidential aide he did not disdain. He labored unsuccessfully to educate a dotty President in the fundamentals of economics, only to have poor Ronald Reagan ignore "the palpable, relevant facts" and wander in circles...
...Halter is an extraordinary contributor to the post-Holocaust literature of lament. The author is the son, grandson and greatgrandson of printers and publishers in Warsaw. As a child, he was smuggled to safety through the sewers of the city's ghetto as the Germans closed in; after wandering in the Soviet Union, he found his way to France. "Somewhere along the line," he recalls, "I lost the sense of Jewish identity. My family's history, my people's history receded. I was preoccupied with my own life, my own affairs." He became a successful painter, an occasional novelist...