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...spent much of his interregnum visiting computer, cable and other high- tech firms, trying to scope out who would have the upper hand in the new information age. He also tried some restorative time off. In June he set out on a cross-country drive, renting a Chrysler convertible in Miami and wending his way along the Gulf Coast through towns like Pensacola and Biloxi. But the summer heat and stale motel air left him dehydrated, and by the time he reached Little Rock, he was running a 100 degrees fever...
...information supplied by the card key computer is limited in scope. The computer cannot record how long students stay in a building. It does not know when one key card is used to admit a large group. It cannot tell when someone lends a card to a friend...
...thunderous overture to his address to Congress this week. He will probably need every decibel. The economic plan he outlines this week is stunning both in size -- some aides estimate it may shift as much as $400 billion in taxes and spending over the next four years -- and scope. Its scores of proposals cover items as small as layoffs and lesser perks for the White House staff, calculated to save a penny-ante $10 million a year, and as large as new energy taxes that could raise as much as $25 billion a year. Less than 30 days into...
...plan the Beit Hashoah, recalls intense arguments about the plans: "You ask yourself what happens between the time a human being is born and the time he incinerates someone. How do you stop that attitude? We tried lots of things." The result is a series of exhibits with broad scope and clear relevance to modern society. "If people simply go to see a Holocaust museum, they'll be surprised," observes UCLA Asian-studies director Don Nakanishi. "This is about our present and future...
...WELL is a magnet for cyberpunk thinkers, and it is there, appropriately enough, that much of the debate over the scope and significance of cyberpunk has occurred. The question "Is there a cyberpunk movement?" launched a freewheeling on-line FLAME-fest that ran for months. The debate yielded, among other things, a fairly concise list of "attitudes" that, by general agreement, seem to be central to the idea of cyberpunk. Among them...