Word: miles
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...this country without ever getting out of our cars, we're a pretty sedentary lot. You can bank at the drive-up and grab dinner at the drive-through. For the ambitiously lazy, there's the drive-by shooting. But a suburban Pittsburgh man has taken sloth the extra mile. Who else but an American would open the world's first drive-through strip joint...
When I tested the latest models--and there are a lot of them--I learned that the two-mile range can shrink to a few blocks when you're trapped in a concrete jungle. Trees, power wires and other obstructions are bad news for a walkie-talkie's fragile FM radio waves--as my editor reported after conducting tests in Massachusetts suburbs and on the beaches of Long Island...
That's how I ended up at the top of the Empire State Building. I hoped that by getting above it all, I might be able to hear my friend Dmitri, transmitting from less than a mile away, on the 23rd floor of the Time & Life Building. Unfortunately, only one of the six radios I tested from on high worked clearly: Audiovox's GMRS-1525 ($240 a pair). Its superior reception, easy controls and rechargeable batteries made it my favorite...
...nabbed $250 million in capital from investors, including $60 million from Amazon and an additional $25 million from Starbucks, Kozmo posted a loss of $26 million last year and laid off 10% of its 3,300 employees this summer. Analysts point to the high cost of operating a "last mile" delivery service, combined with the low $15 average order, as the service's biggest flaws. Yet Park, 28, claims the business plan is on track and says the layoffs were a result of increased efficiency. If things were dire, he counters, why would he have opened a branch...
...Nathan is one you should keep your eye on," said Baker. "He went on many a 20-mile run in the mountains of Vermont this summer...