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...mail I receive word of a sartorial sophomore who makes GQ look like Roseanne. "At dinner," I read, "he had on a lovely sweater vest overtop (casual for him), button-down, an exquisite tie (Egyptian blue) with an intricate brocade down the center." I scroll down to catch the rest of the message. One phrase sticks out: "He's blind...
Looking like a cross between a phaser from Star Trek and a remote control from Wal-Mart, the input devices allow students to instantly "beam" their answers to a central terminal by pressing a corresponding numerical button. The terminal would then compile the answers and create final distribution statistics for how the class fared on each question...
...texts were unavailable and had to be back ordered. Not knowing when they would arrive (hopefully before midterms), I resigned myself to adding only two books to my e-shopping cart. Luckily, they had two of my Sociology texts for a reasonable price. After I clicked on the calculate button, my screen flashed brightly "YOU SAVED $6.59!!!" Two hours of endlessly clicking and typing only yielded a measly $6.59 in savings. At that rate, I would be able to buy myself a celebratory cookie and hot cocoa at Toscanini's--if even that...
...harried, busy, too preoccupied with other things to take the time to parse the muddled prose that explained how Parental Controls work on America Online. And so I left the door to the nursery wide open, as Zoe discovered the other day. She clicked on a button marked "People Connection," a collection of virtual rooms where folks can talk about--and do--anything, and she wandered into the first place she saw. Participants in these chat rooms often write profiles of themselves, and Zoe started to read them--quickly zeroing in on a fellow who described himself as someone...
...tend to diminish with age, the loss may not always place older folks at a disadvantage. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., asked a group of 256 subjects to observe a series of letters, flashed one at a time on a computer screen, and hit a target button whenever an A was followed by an X. Younger adults noticed early in the test that most A's were followed by an X, and became primed to hit the target button whenever they saw an A--which resulted in errors. Older adults were less quick to jump to conclusions...