Word: powers
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When I tested the latest models--and there are a lot of them--I learned that the two-mile range can shrink to a few blocks when you're trapped in a concrete jungle. Trees, power wires and other obstructions are bad news for a walkie-talkie's fragile FM radio waves--as my editor reported after conducting tests in Massachusetts suburbs and on the beaches of Long Island...
...were five of them, could stand me for very long, but all of them had the grace to take in a Jewish child." That was a quality singularly lacking elsewhere (particularly in the U.S.). Still, this moving tribute to a handful of candles flickering in the darkness has the power to summon us--one prays--to our better selves...
Americans have always divided themselves into camps--proslavery and antislavery, say, or "Wet" and "Dry." But the computer modem revolutionizes controversy. Every man a king. Every person a moral philosopher (or blowhard) of instantaneous global reach. The written word, once a priestly prerogative, is now power in the fingers of the wired masses...
...contender touting their religiosity [CAMPAIGN 2000, Aug. 21]. More worrisome, however, is the further contention that religion deserves a greater, rather than lesser, role in the body politic. Does this signal a new Puritanism, a return to politics of the Judeo-Christian tradition as interpreted by the politicians in power? Will our lives be governed by political leaders whose religious convictions we do not share? One can only hope that this is just more empty political rhetoric. JAMES BOYCE Skopje, Macedonia
...studios and television networks discussing how to promote cancer awareness. Then Al Gore marched in with a rough cut of his own: a five-minute video of movie and television scenes in which the hottest stars--John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Winona Ryder among them--were smoking cigarettes. The 1997 power breakfast quickly became a food fight, with accusations of irresponsibility and censorship flying back and forth between Gore and the angry moguls...