Word: screening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...ride did have its share of bumps, literally. During rough spells, I was unable to type without the cursor bouncing across my laptop screen. Back in the dining car, where a line snaked into the next coach compartment, riders grabbed whatever they could to keep beverage and person upright...
...fringe, offering up a slew of shows, giving a creative outlet to anyone from a woman having sex on a plane to a naked, one-toothed, 80-year-old man dancing. This stuff--all jerky and spastic in a tiny 3-in. by 3-in. box on your computer screen--makes public-access cable TV look cerebral and slick. But who cares? It's a global talent show, and you never know who's watching out there--or whether, like Winkler, you'll end up being discovered. Harris, a multimillionaire after founding (and selling) the consulting firm Jupiter Communications...
...says Harvard has been busy pressing Oracle on more urgent system redesigns, like making the system's on-screen navigation easier. Since Oracle is unlikely to overhaul its basic code-assigning system at one customer's urging, code complaints are near the bottom of Harvard's priority list...
...have been on only a week, and I am hooked. You log on and post how fast you want to play (five minutes for the whole game is customary) and how strong an opponent you want. Within seconds, your screen is alive. A chessboard has appeared; your opponent has already moved; your clock, posted onscreen in ominous Apollo-countdown mode, is running...
Reading King on a glowing screen is, in fact, an appropriately eerie experience. Citing his fear of the dark, Alan notes, "Even with a light on there are so many shadows." Riding the Bullet can be read with the light...