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...Standup Stapler An idea you grasp right away. The last time the stapler got serious thought was in the 1930s, when objects were streamlined for the machine-age imagination. In the ergonomic '90s, when we design for the body, the Boston stapler still keeps a nice contour. It's as grip-friendly as a handshake, as squeezable as a teddy bear, and better looking than most public sculpture...
...commentary career began when a bigwig heard him in New York reading from his diaries like a standup comedian. Though he is frequently on "Morning Edition," he never listens to his own voice and is sure that no reader suffers from its absence. He plans to continue in radio...
...decided I wanted to be a standup comic when I was really little. I didn't know what a stand-up comic was, but I was familiar with the term comedian. Adults would always say things like 'You're such a comedian,' and I wanted to be who I was when they said that...
...Kron's standup doesn't launch a thousand ships of raucous laughter, but it does send off a fleet of mirthful and giggling little paper boats--enough humiliation for a lifetime...
Russian Prez Boris Yeltsin made his standup comedy debut during a press conference at the White House, mugging with his interpreter and causing even the stoic Veep Al Gore to crack up. But by all accounts, progress between the U.S. and Russia seems serious. Both agreed to speed up the timetable of dismantling warheads as required by START II agreement reached last year. Clinton also boosted his Russian aid pledge to $1 billion. Other notable deals: U.S. intelligence agencies will now help their counterparts in Russia in tracking down plutonium smugglers, and Clinton managed to convince the burly Russian leader...