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Equipped with a built-in 56K modem, the 4-lb. Audrey lets you check all your news and mail offline by scheduling as many as five automated downloads a day. I loved rolling out of bed in the morning, reading the latest news and peeking ahead at a detailed, four-day weather forecast almost instantaneously--without the hum, whir, delay and bother of booting up my home...
...first-years have had difficulty adjusting. Oliver, a graduate of the Dalton School in New York, came to Harvard with a built-in social network...
...confession is in order: there are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or top prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism my Built-In Hit Detector. I squirm through these masterpieces of emotional pornography, jotting down derisive notes. Oh, if the contrivance is blatant enough, I may get a bit teary; it is, after all, no more difficult for filmmakers to make an audience cry by depicting, say, a child in jeopardy than it is for a lap dancer to evoke an erection in her client...
...Motorola Talkabout T6310 and Kenwood's FreeTalk UBZ-JH14 were close seconds. If you can stomach the $300-a-pair list price on the rugged-looking Talkabouts, you'll be treated to a built-in weather channel, FM radio, alarm clock, stopwatch and multiple privacy modes to keep your calls from being interrupted or overheard. The menus, however, are so loaded down with extras (including 10 different beeps) that it's hard to find the basics. The best feature on Kenwood's Freetalk ($230 a pair) is the ability to scan for a free channel--a big timesaver...
...weren't for the effort, I'd have joined a cult long ago. I long for the sense of community, the built-in belief system, the catchy nicknames. On TV they make cult joining look easy: show up and chant a little, and some guy gives you a uniform and feeds you porridge. But my experiences have proved otherwise. After wading through three-quarters of the multiple-choice admission test for one cult in L.A., a monitor caught me copying off the guy sitting next to me and threw me out. I was the only person rejected from a cult...