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...sure all our needs were met. Of course, it charged for this, although not as much as some tour companies. Ward used only his own bicycle and maps, ate at diners and restaurants and camped at state parks. He saw spectacular scenery along the way. If he had a flat or met a mountain he didn't like, he was on his own. But his vacation cost him less than he would have spent at home in New York in a week. The important thing is that each of us had a fabulous time...
...game of uncommon, life-affirming beauty. When Christian Vieri takes the ball at pace on the outside of his left foot and drives it home with exquisite precision, or when Hidetoshi Nakata dribbles past five defenders and launches a perfect cross that leaves the opposition's entire back line flat-footed, we see in a glorious instant the wondrous capabilities of the world's finest athletes. The game, we are reminded, is an act of creation, not destruction...
...keyboard was the winner of the first two challenges. My thumbs were able to navigate the keys easily by touch, though surprisingly they did a lot better on the Treo's keyboard than on the Clie's (the Treo's is smaller, but the keys aren't quite so flat). The text raced across the screen fast enough for me to take dictation, and I soon needed to hit the delete key only once a paragraph or so. It made me realize how regularly I make mistakes in Graffiti--every other g comes...
...identification) technology--the kind embedded in the electronic passes commuters use to zip past tollbooths. A tag scan at Prada accesses details about fabric, size, availability--even a film clip of the garment worn by a model--all of which are displayed on one of the store's ubiquitous flat plasma video screens. At the Brooks Brothers store near New York's Grand Central Terminal, attendants scan the customers. Brooks' Digital Tailoring system, above--manufactured by Textile/Clothing Technology Corp. of Cary, N.C.--uses a full-body scanner that generates a 3-D model of the customer, from which attendants take...
Just ask Holyhead. She has paid rent of ?750 a month for a one-and-half bedroom flat not far from her new house. Her variable-rate mortgage, on the other hand, will cost just ?500 a month as long as rates hold. Overall, Britons pay only 8% of their income on interest payments, compared to 15% in 1990 after rates had soared into the double-digits, triggering the big credit crunch. "There is no evidence of people having pain servicing their debts," says housing economist John Wriglesworth of Hometrack, "despite lenders being very generous with their lending policies...