Word: serial
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Just as President Bill Clinton launches a final effort to convince Congress that China deserves permanent normal trade status, there are still plenty of critics who see the communist goliath variously as a strategic threat to the U.S., a vast sweatshop economy swallowing up American jobs and a serial abuser of human rights. Even free-trading multinational corporations experience enormous frustrations trying to do business in China. Countless joint ventures have soured on disagreements between the partners, contract violations and unrealistic expectations of quick profits. A survey last year by management consultants AT Kearney found that 60% of all foreign...
...examples of Imus or his half-witted sidekicks saying obnoxious things about women, gays, Jews and minorities. Like calling Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, a 'boner-nosed, beanie-wearing Jew boy.' Or the New York Knicks 'chest-thumping pimps.' Or saying that people shouldn't get upset about serial gay killer Andrew Cunanan because 'he's just whacking off freaks!' Nobile tried to sell an article asking why media bigwigs like Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather and some of your colleagues from TIME magazine feel comfortable appearing on a program that trades in this kind of swill...
...more polite than soulful. His album comes to life, though, with a rap cameo by Nas on the last track. Singer Carl Thomas' mostly agreeable album has a bit more "street" to it, perhaps because he's on Sean ("Puffy") Combs' Bad Boy label. His association with serial sampler Combs may also explain why the title track on this CD samples a hefty chunk of Sting's song Shape of My Heart. Like Puffy's best appropriations, it's a guilty pleasure...
...Palm line does not have a special slot, but there are already a bunch of peripherals that fit onto the serial connection at the bottom of the devices. Last week I tried out a global-positioning system, a clip-on that superimposes a real-time compass onto any map, a digital voice recorder and a probe that checks variables like light, salinity and temperature. (I'm told it was recently used to take the temperature of a pregnant baboon--I hope they sent me a fresh one.) Clearly, this isn't a battle that will...
...Caviezel), gets in touch with him, thanks to ham radio (and our suspended disbelief), and tells him how to avoid his fate. But rejigger a tiny piece of the past, and new problems arise. Suddenly, father and son are messily involved with a serial killer. Working-class Queens is a surprising, effective sci-fi setting, but the jumbled storyline is hard to track. Finally you give up on it--and, alas, on some nice, quite attractive people...