Word: phoning
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...once in Baton Rouge, De'Monte saved the day again. Thanks to good coaching by his mom, the boy gave shelter staff enough information--names, addresses, phone numbers, personal descriptions--that in a few days they and the Virginia-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were able to locate all the children's parents, whom rescuers had taken to San Antonio, Texas. The kids were whisked by a private Angel Flight plane to join them in San Antonio, where De'Monte and his family now live. "I was shocked, surprised and proud of my baby when I heard...
...come down because I was getting tired, but again, no one moved." Except for Heru (Jack) Kurniawan, 27, who saw Erwin struggling to get back to the riverbank. "It was obvious that someone had to do something or both of them would drown," he says. Handing his cell phone to a friend, Jack waded in and, "trying to avoid the dead bodies," paddled over to Erwin and the girl. When he lifted her onto his shoulder, she screamed in pain, and the men realized her foot was caught in a fishing net. It seemed to take an eternity to untangle...
...military hospital. He never saw her again. Later, Erwin discovered that his youngest son, 5, had perished in the tsunami. "I'm still haunted by the loss of my boy," he says. Meanwhile, Jack has lost his job too and can no longer afford to own a cell phone. Erwin is studying English to improve his chances of getting a job with an aid agency, but he isn't optimistic. "I do realize that I have to move on. But moving on is hard when you're not sure what the future is." Alas, heroism is sometimes its only reward...
...tricky if you're recording a vocal to get called out because there's a finance minister on the phone. It's hard explaining that to the rest of the band. I've got to be careful because music is what's given me the license, and I have to serve it. I have crossed that line and gone too far. I'm trying to figure this out as we speak. It's not easy. The thing you've really got to watch is that it's always a life-or-death issue, so you can play martyr. If somebody...
...Phone’ and ‘telephone,’ long-standing fixtures of language both, appear to be falling out of favor as verbs despite Who Wants to be a Millionaire‘s allowance that participants can ‘phone a friend.’ Instead, we call them up (far preferable to ‘celling’ them, as this would set up some unfortunate verbal puns). Of course, in some circles, calling is passé for different reasons entirely and has been replaced by ‘texting,’ which...