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...train has other advantages. Even with the seat in front of me reclined, I was able to cross my legs and reach for the bag below me easily. Cell phones are allowed (either a plus or a minus, depending on whether you own one). And we weren't slaves to our seats. The train I took was hopping, with folks hustling to and from the dining...
...form includes questions that the average person wouldn't ask his best friend, let alone a stranger. Since the forms began going out last winter, hundreds of thousands of indignant citizens have flooded the bureau's Washington headquarters with messages of angry protest. In an age of computer hackers, cell-phone eavesdroppers, Internet "cookies" and surveillance satellites, much of the public lacks faith, it seems, in the bureau's guarantee of total confidentiality. Like draft-card burners from the 1960s, some privacy-loving Americans have even vowed to pay the government's $100 penalty for nonfiling rather than satisfy Uncle...
...European women in thong bikinis are invisible to Tom Winkler. He's lying on a chaise longue by the overflowing pool at the Mondrian hotel, picking at the papaya from his $12.50 fruit plate. Remembering to return a call to his actress girlfriend, he pulls out his stainless-steel cell phone. What Winkler needs is a personal assistant...
Dolly was once an awfully lonely sheep. When the famously cloned animal made headlines in 1997, she was the only mammal ever to be manufactured from the cell of an adult donor. Since then, the clone ranks have swelled, with mice and cattle also toddling out of the labs. Last week cloning technology took another step forward when an international biotechnology company announced that it had created a litter of five genetically identical piglets, and that it had a pretty good idea of how they could one day be used: as organ donors for ailing humans...
...frenzy of perpetual motion we want to re-create the space around us, not as our only joy but because we can, and because that way it's our space. We're snapping up translucent blueberry-tinted computers, bubbled cars and little chrome cell phones as fast as they can be produced. We're fully employed, and we want something to show for it, even if we're not Internet billionaires. So where design used to be considered vaguely precious, the province of the Sub-Zero-refrigerator-owning elite, it's now available to all--from the crowd that shops...