— Jeff Gordinier Afar: Reporting from Turin, Marie Doezema practically dares you not to drool in a one-pager about the Italian city's famed bicerin, "a heady beverage made from chocolate, cream and espresso".
I'm not saying she needed to star in the fashion shoot – although that really would have been fabulous – but what about a one-pager about life with her own kids, or healthy dinnners she cooks.
WL Webb writes: Geoffrey reminded me recently that I had given him his first byline in the Guardian – a sketch of the kind once known as a "back-pager", about a stroppy curate getting on the wrong side of his Lancashire bell-ringers – and generally encouraged him in the late 1950s to push on and become one of the paper's stars.
She constantly calls him with her pager to complain about everything.
Frequently, hospital, laboratory, medical examiner, and postal service personnel contacted a member of the team by telephone or pager with concerns about potential patients with suspect symptoms.
I think there have been too many 800-pagers, particularly about 19th- and 20th-century figures, where the wealth of surviving documentation makes them unwieldy with superfluous knowledge.
A six-pager written about Prime would focus more on the requirements of the supply chain and logistics to meet demand, identify which products are Prime eligible, internal systems requirements, budget, value to the customer, etc.
Hong Kongers also carry about 1m pagers, some of which are able to alert their owners to movements in the stockmarket and to horse-racing results, and nearly 1.3m cellular telephones.For all the colony's technological prowess, it made a late start on telecoms deregulation.
An article in Circuits on Thursday about pager software for the Palm Pilot misstated the number of older Pilots and Palm Pilots in use.
As we canvassed the scene in Brooklyn, the B.N.N. pager was bleeping about a "mass casualty incident" at a school in Elmhurst, Queens: a fire department dispatcher had reported that eight students "inhaled an aerosol spray".
Cost for the whole package, including the pager and PalmPilot: about $589.
