Word: ways
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...days, customers left flowers outside Je's. To Harry, it feels as if she died yesterday. The faces at the counter, the light through the window, the time on the clock--the meaning of it all escapes Harry, who lost his girl and can't find his way. He and the boys will keep Je's open for now, but they won't work themselves to death like she did. There will be a different balance now. "You spend your whole life working, planning for the day when you can take some time together, and then it's gone," Harry...
...baby steps in the boot prints of the old. Many of the cyber-knickknacks on our Tech 10 Best are binary clones of old friends. PayPal is the next Western Union; the Nikon Coolpix 900 is the spawn of the Brownie. Nike will customize your sneakers, just the way your "artistic" aunt did for your eighth birthday. And Napster: free access to worlds of music! It used to be called radio...
...WONDERLAND (ABC). TV loves shootings and heart attacks but has ignored mental illness. The best medical show in years went inside a psychiatric hospital with clear-eyed compassion and depth. Two ill-rated airings later, ABC, like society, chose to look the other way again...
...bumper year for gadgets. If it wasn't electronic, we made it electronic. If it was already electronic, we combined it with something else electronic, made it smaller and taught it how to play Edelweiss. And somewhere in there we managed to build technologies that will change the way we live, work and relate to one another. It was a great year to be a geek...
...PAYPAL At last, a simple and easy way to "wire" money--even tiny amounts of it--online. You can use it to send your deadbeat brother five bucks via e-mail, or to pay $200 for those vintage Care Bears you bought on eBay. It's quickly getting to be the medium of choice for small-scale e-commerce...