31.   Shoulder pads are back, not in mammoth proportions but just big enough to square off the shoulders.

32.   Shoulder pads are softer these days.

33.   Some Web pads are meant to be a companion to a PC.

34.   Sparrow, showing an elbow sticky with blood and a two-inch lump on his head, does not think pads are very cool.

35.   Sponge rubber pads are available in quarter-inch- and three-eighths-inch thicknesses.

36.   The game pad is easy enough to set up and calibrate and the controls are adequate for many of the popular games on the market.

37.   The Malaysian shrimp is spicy and the pad Thai is delicious.

38.   The mouse pad is the piece of foam rubber it sits on.

39.   The mouse pad is also available through Sharper Image stores.

40.   The pads are lumpy twin reminders of all the other burdens women in the corporate world are still shouldering.