His ex-girlfriend has left him with a baby, Toby, whom he keeps trying to palm off on other people.
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Although George Bush and Tony Blair have talked repeatedly of making it a "vital" one, EU nations suspect the U.S. in particular of wanting to palm off the U.N. with little more than a humanitarian aid function.
Colombo 025 was blasting the leaves off of palm trees and the sand off rooftops.
Off Palm Beach, Miami, marine developer US Submarines is building a six-room habitat 30 m below, complete with cooking facilities, lounges and fish-feeding stations.
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Today, when he's not in Los Angeles, Mr. Nitze, 41, lives three hours away on an entirely different type of frontier: on the outer edge of civilization north from Palm Springs, off a 1-mile-long dirt road in the remote, rocky high desert of Southern California.
From a distance, they lived off their palm profits, leaving their fields in the hands of contracted managers.
Palm, which spun off from computer giant 3Com last year, said it was having difficulties with a shortage of components for its popular electronic organiser, the Palm Vx and new entry level m100.
It's the one in which the elephant, again ridiculed by the rest of the jungle, agrees to babysit an egg while its mother, the reprehensible Mayzie bird, goes off to Palm Beach for the winter.
Eventually Palm was forced to spin off its software business into a company called PalmSource.
Above the palm trees some 200 yards off, Apache helicopters spat 30 mm rounds and the occasional rocket.
Eventually Palm was forced to spin off its software business into a company called PalmSource (nasdaq: PSRC - news - people ).
Then Palm Inc. created PalmSource as a subsidiary, focused on the Palm OS, before spinning it off as a public company.
Less than a week away is Palm Sunday, the holiday that kicks off Holy Week, which culminates in Easter celebrations.
If he can pull it off, the revival of Palm Solutions will be one of the great management feats in recent years.
The new interface may put off those used to the standard Palm OS interface.
On one occasion in Brazil, it set them back 11 days, forcing them to live off the land, foraging for palm hearts and fishing.
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Hot enough to melt the church bells, the Palm Sunday fire peeled five centuries of whitewash off the walls, exposing enormous Gothic frescoes painted when the building was erected.
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Five minutes later the keeper again pulled off a great save, stretching to palm Teddy Sheringham's long-range shot onto the bar and away for a corner.
Its downtown is a wholly different place, with chic Middle Eastern restaurants along Ben Gurion Avenue, freshly planted palm trees in Paris Square and throngs of tourists skipping off cruise ships in the renovated port.
The location, out on the man-made Palm Island, may leave you feeling a little cut off from the shopping malls, beaches and indoor ski slopes but if and when the stalled development on the Palm is completed you may never need venture onto the mainland again.
The curved edges and rounded-off corners mean it'll never dig into your palm when you're holding it one-handed.
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Kicking off Holy Week is the lively and colourful celebration of Palm Sunday, when the grey St Peter's Square turns into a sea of green.
When it comes time to send them off to another destination, he goes back to his Palm VII and a cellular tower detects his location and directs him to the nearest dropoff.
Since Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) OS handheld organizers took off, personal digital assistants have become indispensable geek-gear, and now one can do almost anything on the things: keep schedules, play video games, or trade soup recipes.
It can also allow a business professional to arrive for a presentation carrying only a palm-size computer, which will be able to pull the presentation off the Web.
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