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While the NAB and the switch may seem to add needless complexity, they really don't. In fact, Steen is actually streamlining the UNIX configuration with these new devices. He is using the age-old computer science concept of abstraction--insulating different parts of the system from each other...
Another Friday, another late night alone at my desk. No partying for me. That can wait 'til Saturday. Nope, I'm not even thinking about catching up on that age-old sourcebook reading either. Hello, my name is Sharon, and I'm an e-mail-aholic...
Modern researchers are now beginning to understand why this technique seems to work and have transformed age-old myth into an cutting-edge technology...
That is campaign consultant James Carville's maxim -- and it applies to popular entertainment even more than running for office. So you can imagine the frenzy in the book world when publishers were offered an age-old story line with a modern twist: boy meets girl from the wrong party; boy loses girl to rival presidential campaign; and, after the election, boy and girl reconcile and marry. It's Romeo and Juliet, His Girl Friday and Adam's Rib, with Bill Clinton and George Bush in supporting roles. With two publishing giants sharing the imprint, the hype machine for this...
...exhilarating democratic sport that tolerates cheating and has excluded as many as it has included; a profoundly conservative game that often manages to be years ahead of its time. It is an American odyssey that links sons and daughters to fathers and grandfathers. And it reflects a host of age-old American tensions: between workers and owners, scandal and reform, the individual and the collective. It is a haunted game in which every player is measured against the ghosts of all who have gone before. Most of all, it is about time and timelessness, speed and grace, failure and loss...