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...Because much of the electronic mail system is an illusion. It seems easy to make real acquaintances simply by "talking" to people over the network. But e-mail leaves no lasting aural or visual record of a person. When you shut off your computer, your electronic personality vanishes like dust in the wind. One day a computer program will surely be able to simulate an e-mail conversation even more "real" than ones carried on by humans...
...dust is finally starting to clear from that first whirlwind of papers and midterms. October and November are a mean couple of months at the College; no one's claiming they aren't. But no one seems to have talked to those Stupid First-years lately, either...
Before the dust had cleared, Chernikoff's second assist of the day set up Flynn's second goal, giving Harvard the 4-0 lead it would hold until the game...
...Style section. But Harvard economist Juliet Schor's research shows that women have been eliminating half an hour of housework for every hour they work outside the home -- or up to 20 hours a week, which is the equivalent of a 50-ft. mound of unfolded laundry or a dust ball as large as a house...
...spectacle of thousands of children and other innocent people starving while gangs of thugs stole the food from their bowls. Now the majority of Americans want to withdraw from Somalia because they have felt a converse outrage at pictures of an American soldier's body gruesomely dragged through the dust, and of grinning Somalis dancing on the corpse of a helicopter...