Word: shell
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...Veneto auto 2. Former Screen Actors Guild president 3. Nicknamed "Dr. Subtle," he's on track to become the next premier of Italy 4. Wall St. debut 5. 1993 Kevin Kline title role 6. Shell game 7. Tuned in 8. Hoops great Charles, who has announced his retirement 9. Old White House nickname 10. Mack of early television 13. Navigator Ron, for whom the Lebanese prisoners were used as bargaining chips 15. Garden State five 19. Ford's "__ America!" campaign will give away hundreds of thousands of children's safety seats 21. Ripken, the latest member...
...pockets. The poor things get thoroughly frayed with all the portable equipment I jam into them every morning: CD player, Palm Pilot, e-mail pager, voice recorder, a novel for the train. Pocket PC promises to do the work of all of the above in a single 9-oz. shell (made variously by Compaq, H-P and Casio). Given that my local tailor charges me the equivalent of the national debt of a small country for sewing up all the holes in my clothing created by this gadgetry, how could I resist...
...only wish I'd hidden it better," students lament as they complain about having to shell out more money to buy a new appliance. "Next time, I'll be more careful...
...discovered that his wife's Internet tastes ran to the louche--specifically, sex chat-room sites. Worse, he suspected that she had begun to date a guy she had met online. The man even phoned their house. Lou, a round-faced immigrant with a soft voice and tortoise-shell eyeglasses, tried to persuade his spouse to be faithful to him. She wouldn...
...basic science is pretty straightforward. The earth lurches from time to time because its outer shell is broken into 11 huge, solid plates floating on a layer of molten rock that has the consistency of Silly Putty. These tectonic plates are constantly jostling each other, like rafts crowded into a small pond, and it's along the boundaries where they meet that most quakes are born. The two plates that form California's infamous San Andreas Fault, the Pacific and the North American plates, are the largest on Earth. And they're moving inexorably in opposite directions...