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...heavy sacks of flour, his chest broader than a 40-gallon drum. He has pylons for legs. The hand he offered in greeting swallowed mine whole in a fleshy palm, then wrapped it in fingers fat like German sausages. Over his grey kameez and flowing shirt he wore a neat-cut waistcoat. A bushy black beard tumbled from his face. He talked slowly; the same as he moved. "[Helmand] Governor Haji Shir Mohammed and American soldiers have gone on this road to Kajaki [a town to the north in the Baghran area], " he said...
...been going to law school during the day, and the vice president on the 55th floor could have been fired two weeks after the terror attacks. The compensation shouldn't be about salaries - in and of themselves a totally arbitrary measure of a person's worth - and without that neat categorization, there is no calculus to determine who should get what. So give everyone precisely the same amount...
Dean Kamen's latest invention, the Segway "human transporter," seems to be an example of misguided utopianism [TECHNOLOGY, Dec. 10]. It's a neat gizmo, but is it truly necessary or beneficial? You don't drive from place to place when in a city. You park your car, perhaps use mass transit, then walk around. This limits congestion. Also, given the volume of inconsiderate drivers on the road nowadays, their bad traits are likely to be transferred to the nation's walkways if they choose to use the Segway to get around town. I'd rather experience the interaction...
...what came after his men had finished their job that has come to define this year. The first page of a new century had unfolded neat as a legal pad, a few scribbles in the margins, but nothing worth underlining. We had our worries. There were fears that cell phones would cause brain cancer. Fears that we were overprescribing antibiotics. Drinking too much arsenic. That sharks were stalking us. The lights went out in California. There was the fight over stem cells, the fear about clones. Do we drill in the Arctic? On Sept. 10, Congress was debating another...
...what came after his men had finished their job that has come to define this year. The first page of a new century had unfolded neat as a legal pad, a few scribbles in the margins, but nothing worth underlining. There were worries. There were fears that cell phones would cause brain cancer. Fears that we were overprescribing antibiotics. Drinking too much arsenic. That sharks were stalking us. The lights went out in California. There was the fight over stem cells, the fear about clones. Do we drill in the Arctic? On Sept. 10, Congress was debating another...