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...Macintosh, the medium is the metaphor, and users begin to think not in words but in symbols. Paint programs come equipped with electronic pencils, paint buckets, spray cans and erasers. Desktop-publishing programs come with electronic scissors and pasteboards. Photographs are processed in electronic darkrooms; digital movies are spliced in electronic videotape editors...
...employer mandate," says Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman. "Without it you can't have universal coverage." Put simply, the Administration would force most employers to pay 80% of the cost of health insurance premiums. Workers would cover the rest. But small companies, and an increasing number of medium and large ones, contend that such mandates could bankrupt them. In an attempt to accommodate these concerns, the White House proposes 15 separate rates of medical-premium costs determined by company size and employee wages. These differences, Moynihan argues caustically, could cause a "massive shift" in U.S. employment patterns as companies replace...
...offset of the fault is called the slip. In a medium-sized earthquake measuring six on the Richter scale, the average slip would be about half a meter...
...sheer modulus measures the rigidity of the medium. The less rigid the medium, the lower the sheer modulus. Generally speaking, this value stays constant...
...more censorious attitude toward booze and all its works. But that would have subverted the romance of drinking. Hamill still seems to believe in that, in some backhanded way, though he switched to club soda 20 years ago. He even gives boozing a momentary political justification: "Drinking became the medium of my revolt against the era of Eisenhower. Drinking was a refusal to play the conformist game, a denial of the stupid rules of a bloodless national ethos." How cunning is the sauce, the shapeshifter...