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There are trade-offs in design too. The PowerLock is built around a pair of gears that give you extra leverage when you're plying your pliers; they also give the whole tool a deliciously smooth unfolding action--it's the only one you can actually flip open one-handed. (The gears also give the tool a complicated look I find irresistible.) On the downside, the PowerLock has its blades positioned along its inside edges, so you have to unfold it into pliers mode to use them. Awkward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Leatherman for All Seasons | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

While all three home-page services start out free, Homestead charges $49.99 a year to host your page after a 14-day trial period. Some users might find it preferable to GeoCities, which puts advertising on your home page. AOLers don't pay extra for their home page--it's covered by their monthly service fee. (AOL Time Warner is the parent company of this magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Do It: Building Your Home Page | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...phone call from a Somerville student fund raiser, a welcome innovation. But the caller seemed embarrassed to ask for $20 a month. Pembroke's last master, Robert Stevens, retired early, largely because the fund-raising burdens were exhausting him. So if Rev. Platt was willing to create an extra place for a student whose entrance exam grades were (according to his "father") two As and one B instead of three As, was that so bad if future Pembrokians would benefit to the tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indecent Interval in a Good Cause | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...alone, and while they racked up $2.3 billion in user fees last year, the number of monthly transactions per machine has fallen by half since 1996. Banks are essentially fighting for customers at every gas station and corner store. A few years ago, some started offering extra services, such as check cashing and stamp dispensing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mini-Mall in Your ATM | 3/31/2002 | See Source »

...launched her and her predecessor [in 1950]. So it's wonderful to feel that now she's going to be at sea and guarding our shores just as in the days of yore ... Captain, splice the main brace" ? a reference to the old naval custom of an extra tot of rum, a round for a job well done. On the day before Easter, her job well done, the Queen Mother died peacefully in her sleep at Royal Lodge, her residence at Windsor, with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, at her bedside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Ma'am For All Seasons | 3/31/2002 | See Source »

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