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...reissued, Taylor spent a happy year signing copies and giving interviews until her death in 1996 at age 93. Her slim, deft, 64-year-old attempt to stir a complacent America to the dangers brewing across the Atlantic sits today in bookstores around the world, often right at the checkout counter - a reminder that important messages can come in small envelopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Envelopes from the Edge | 9/15/2002 | See Source »

...supermarket in west Seattle. From now on, registered customers need only place a finger on a small scanner to cart off as many groceries as they want. Developed by Indivos, a consumer biometric company based in Oakland, Calif., Pay By Touch may be the best thing since the express-checkout lane. It allows shoppers to authorize credit-card and bank payments using a fingerprint, a copy of which they have placed on file. "People like it for the same reason they like speed passes at gas pumps--mobility and speed," says Frank Pierce, Indivos' vice president of marketing. The company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: May 20, 2002 | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...catalog, which will be functional July 8, will enable users to modify previous searches, limit requests by library, view checkout records and search for titles using Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters...

Author: By Nalina Sombuntham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Libraries To Unveil New Catalog on Web | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...wall with his arms crossed," wrote a reader from Michigan. "How many people would strike that pose if a gun were being fired in front of them?" A Florida reader agreed, observing, "The person leaning nonchalantly against the wall has an almost grotesque attitude, the resigned acceptance of a checkout delay at the grocery store. This is a world I cannot comprehend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 15, 2002 | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...Berg’s doors were closed, I had an equally distracting food source in the sketchy, slightly smelly, super qwikie-mart with its pre-wrapped “meat” sandwiches, continually empty, greasy “bakery-fresh” shelf and checkout guy whose hair color changed with the days of the week. Silly freshman Antoinette, if only I could talk to her, keep her from the nightly trips to Twinkie central! The freshman 15, remember the freshman...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, | Title: Life's Best If Served With a Thin, Flaky Crust | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

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