Word: haven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haven't they? In Gordon's view, "what keeps computers from being truly productive is that these damn human beings keep getting in the way." Many jobs cannot be fully automated: "Planes will always need two pilots and trucks a driver." Computers cannot replace beauticians, gardeners or restaurant chefs. Moreover, there is the law of diminishing returns: the latest PCs do not represent as great an advance over earlier computers as the first did over typewriters, or as typewriters did over writing by hand. Says Gordon: "I cannot type or think any faster than I did with my first personal...
...University of Cincinnati study found that problematic computer users tend to be most mesmerized by interactive pursuits--frequenting chat rooms and other multiuser domains, writing e-mail, surfing the Web, playing games. These can serve as a haven for workers from procrastination, boredom and feelings of isolation at work; the fantasy world they offer can be an attractive alternative to the daily grind. "It's an altered state of reality," reports Young. "It's like a drug rush." Depression, she and others believe, can be a result of--not the cause of--compulsive computer use: after someone has been parading...
...speaks emotionally of Iraq's suffering under U.N. sanctions, he places the blame where Clinton does--squarely on Saddam Hussein. On the eve of his Washington visit, Abdullah took a step that delighted U.S. officials: he cut Saudi relations with the fundamentalist Taliban rulers in Afghanistan, who have given haven to suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. The reason, Abdullah explained, was that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar broke three promises he had made to Riyadh to expel or extradite the exiled Saudi fundamentalist accused by the U.S. of masterminding global terror...
...much of his government, but that doesn't mean there's been any progress or decisive action on the economy. "The problem now isn't that Boris Yeltsin is irrelevant," says Quinn-Judge. "The problem is that the current government is immobile. Despite being in power a month, they haven't actually done anything nor made clear what they plan to do. All discussion about this government remains theoretical...
...come a long way Harvard--it wasn't long ago that the College blithely took pride in its students, and now it can matter-of-factly state that letting all of these students into each other's dorms is a proposition too dangerous to risk. But you haven't come far enough yet. As they say on TV, "Trust no one, not even the 6400 students you handpicked and now bear sole responsibility for educating, feeding and molding into mature and crime-free human beings." Thanks for you time...