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...beginners out there. For instance, every week I point people to our website, timedigital.com for more information about the column's topic. Invariably, I get e-mail from readers saying something like: "I tried to look up timedigital.com but I got thousands of hits. Which one is your page?" Aha! I snort. Here's a person who is still confused about the difference between a browser and a search engine! (Don't be ashamed. I have an editor who is also befuddled on this point.) Think of a browser as the 3-D glasses your computer needs to "see" things...
...example, he takes readers from the wealthy Buckhead mansions north of Atlanta, down through the bustling business district and into the slums with one seamless narrative. Current trends and ideas are summarized with pithy aphorisms: Exercise-crazed women become "Boys with Breasts" and get-rich-quick schemes induce "The Aha! Phenomenon." Wolfe entertains readers with his keen ear for dialect and penchant for Dickensian names like Armholster, Peepgass and Armentrout. And of course, when it comes to clothes, who but a dandy like Wolfe would note the difference between a twist-weave suit and a hard-finished worsted...
...American, Cherokee, Seminole and Saponi descent. During her first visits to the National Archives, she pored over an 1880 census to find some of her black ancestors. She was getting discouraged after 2 1/2 hours, until, she recalls, "lo and behold, I began to find family members. Once the 'Aha!' factor and the 'Oh, wow!' factor take over, you don't mind the hunt...
...friend of mine has a sister who is deaf and talks to herself in sign language, which takes the behavior into a new dimension. When I heard this, I thought, "Aha, there's proof of what I have been saying: talking to yourself is just a way of thinking things over, of processing ideas through articulation, a sort of audible shadowboxing. The deaf woman turns her brain waves into fast-forward hand dancing. Same thing." As a writer, I talk to myself in order to try out ideas--a rough draft recited to the pigeons--before writing them down...
...hatched as an M.B.A. project at Stanford, was straightforward. He figured that by importing shoes made in Japan, where labor was then cheap, he could undercut the dominant player, Adidas. At first he merely imported Japanese running shoes. Then Bowerman, in the kitchen one morning, had one of those Aha! ideas. He made an outsole by pouring a rubber compound into the waffle iron. The waffle trainer was born--and Nike was ready...