Word: handing
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...problem is that there's no way to get the personal phone book off the Nokia, despite an infrared port at one end that looks like it should be able to "beam" the numbers to a Palm or other infrared device. Unless, of course, I copy them out by hand...
...This material, all in the public domain, had been previously circulated by people such as Rush Limbaugh and Paul Harvey. Jacoby undertook to correct some of the facts. In an e-mailed version of his column, sent to 100 friends and associates, he made it clear the material at hand was much-circulated boilerplate. In his printed Globe column, he did not make that fact clear. The Globe's fastidious editors might have suggested that Jacoby run a line below his next column saying, oh, by the way, I should have mentioned that a lot of this speculation...
...sooner than one might have dared hope, predicts Harvard University neurologist Dr. Dennis Selkoe, Alzheimer's disease will shed the veneer of invincibility that today makes it such a terrifying affliction. Medical practitioners, he believes, will shortly have on hand not one but several drugs capable of slowing--and perhaps even halting--the progression of the disease. Best of all, a better understanding of genetic and environmental risk factors will lead to much earlier diagnosis, so that patients will receive treatment long before their brains start to fade...
...year-old son Rob as he engaged in exactly that type of combat. Of course, when Rob lost a bout at the U.S. Fencing Association's national championships, she would have been upset if he hadn't calmly taken off his mask and shaken his partner's hand. After all, Rob has been trained in the etiquette of the ancient sport since he started fencing...
Visualize this: Timothy Draper, the gonzo venture capitalist from Silicon Valley, swoops into a South Central Los Angeles church to preach the gospel of school vouchers to a group of black ministers. He is introduced--by his own advance man--as "an instrument of God's hand, like Rosa Parks." Never mind that this is a 42-year-old multimillionaire preppie known to ski in boxer shorts and throw Frisbees at conferences, who even dressed as Batman to inaugurate a Manhattan office. Today, Draper tells the assembled pastors, he is ready to spend at least $20 million of his fortune...