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What the computer user sees when he fires up Mosaic is a document that looks something like a magazine page. It has nicely formatted text. It has bulleted lists of places and things. It has icons and images. But it also has, hidden within those words and images, links to other locations on the Internet. Certain words on the page are highlighted in blue. When the user clicks on blue words, the program reaches across the Internet, grabs the next page of information -- wherever it happens to be -- and displays it on the screen. Click on the words "World Wide...
...spirit of the, er, text struck some Americans who had the advantage of having been there at the time as a revisionist travesty. The curators seemed to be confused about who started the war and who pursued it (in China, the Philippines and elsewhere) with relentless inhumanity. To turn the Japanese into the victims of World War II, and the Americans into the villains, seemed an act of something worse than ignorance; it had the ring of a perverse generational upsidedownspeak and Oedipal lese majeste worthy of a fraud like Oliver Stone...
...book uses more white space and nontraditional colors and backgrounds, with pastels and few primary colors. Many of the pictures are either black and white covered in stripes of solid color or shaded behind the text...
...Certainly our older pieces were very traditional," says Diana Cook, associate director of admissions at Yale. "Our goal was to write a text that was more of the contemporary language and ideas of the pre-frosh...
...said. If you're assigned a section with "15 male seniors and 3 female freshmen," go to the head tutor and get it changed. If you suspect a student hasn't done the reading, don't put him on the spot by asking a specific question about a specific text...