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Hewlett-Packard provides, among other things, Braille books, interpreters and text telephone (TTY) service--phone conversations in which an operator transcribes a hearing person's response that is transmitted and read by a deaf person on a text telephone screen. Patty O'Sullivan, 39, H-P's diversity project administrator, who has been with the company for 13 years, is an avid user of the technology. O'Sullivan, who is deaf, conducted her interview with TIME via TTY. Her employer also has an interpreter available if she is meeting with people in a large group and would have a hard...
Overeducated fans turn baseball into "text." One historian sees the game as an American fertility rite. A professor of English at the University of Rochester, George Grella, has written that "while (baseball) radiates a spiritual transcendence, it also expresses a parallel paradoxical quality of sadness...it instructs us in two crucial American concepts, the loneliness of space and the sadness of time...
That's a start, anyway--football as text. Papers for future discussion: "The Huddle: Gemeinschaft or Gesellschaft?" "The Snap from Center: A Buried Semiotics of Homoeroticism?" "From Cosell to Madden: Pedants and Blowhards in the Booth...
...hope my inference is clear. The A's go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell points...
...They liken the job to taking a year's worth of issues of a magazine like this one, chopping the pages into one-line fragments, then trying to put the fragments back together without a single typo. As daunting as that seems, imagine that up to 30% of the text consists of nearly identical strings of words up to 7,000 letters long. Assembling these "repeat sequences," says the genome project's Francis Collins, is "a challenge to anyone who doesn't break it down into bite-size pieces...