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...away, the worst question you can ask a senior is, "How's the thesis?" Typical responses include a string of expletives, a painful groan or just deadly silence. But as March 5 approaches, it is juniors, not seniors, who are becoming nauseous at the mere mention of the t-word...
Perhaps I should clarify the word "blown." When I say blown, I don't mean that I had a flat tire; I mean that I had no tire whatsoever in a place where I quite needed one. The only thing I had was a few shreds of burning rubber...
...public, and society to "young lady" her, as in, "Young lady, what are you doing?" But do grown women really want to be young ladied? Karen Lehrman, author of The Lipstick Proviso, agrees that women want courting and less coarseness, but not a staid modesty. "I think a better word is elegance," she says, pointing to Lauren Bacall and Grace Kelly in their subtle but steely glory. Now there's something worth returning...
...been knocking knees with two such machines made by Sharp Electronics of Mahwah, N.J.: the Mobilon Pro ($899) and the Mobilon Tripad ($999). They are unique in the CE laptop category because they have touch-sensitive color VGA screens that make it easier to do everything from word processing to opening and closing programs...
...tool. But be warned that CE will run only its own applications, and they're "lite" versions. Microsoft is so worried that consumers will be confused--and buy a CE machine expecting it to run full Windows programs--that it will launch an "awareness" ad campaign next month. Pocket Word, for instance, is a dumbed-down Word that's little more than a text editor. It doesn't even have a word counter--which is why, when Mr. Productivity wrote this column, he had to count words with his fingers. And knees...