Word: making
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...note stuck to the monitor. Siemens thinks it has a better way--a mouse ($150 at siemensidmouse.com that doubles as a security system. A silicon plate embedded in the top of the device reads your fingerprint and confirms your identity by matching it to a digital image. Fingerprints make excellent passwords, says Siemens spokesman Thomas Tesluk: you can't forget them, and if you lose one, hey, you've got nine others...
...Frank Stockton, the writer who propounded this question in the 1880s, left the answer to his readers. He intended it to be a test of character. Stockton said that the choice you make shows the kind of person...
...might be more to the point to imagine that Gore or Bush was in the stands, standing beside the king. If that were the case, would Princess Al make a choice motivated by destructive ferocity of ego, or by self-sacrifice? How about Princess George...
...That's pretty much what the Gore team, led by the rumpled and disarmingly lucid superlawyer David Boies, was asking for. Boies argued that the only discretion Secretary of State Katherine Harris really needs is to make sure her office can muster a final answer in time for Dec. 12. And since her duties are merely a "ministerial act" - a contention the Bush team later appeared to confirm - certainly the hand counts could go on until, say, December 9 or so without serious damage to the rights of the Florida electorate...
Europe can't see the wood for the trees, says the U.S. But the Europeans believe that what they're seeing is actually a giant fig leaf. Make-or-break talks in The Hague on the Kyoto climate change treaty appeared doomed for failure, Tuesday, after the European Union rejected a U.S. proposal to factor in its forests as a means of cutting its output of the carbon gases that create global warming...