Word: using
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Thus, for 30 min. each week a massive audience witnessed, live, a parade of people trying to use their heads to strike it rich. Question quickly spawned a number of instant folk heros and heroines: the New York City cop who had brushed up his Shakespeare ($16,000); the shoemaker opera buff ($32,000); the young psychologist named Joyce Brothers whose specialty was prizefighting...
...necessary. The questions are too easy, answerable by a person of modest intelligence and learning. The early quizzes asked for information almost no one could provide--e.g., the complete menu of a royal dinner in Enlightenment France. Today's shows are built on the most degraded of advertising techniques: use this deodorant, and you too can have great sex; you too could win a million dollars with a little luck and a reliable lifeline; that jubilant contestant up there could be you. They reflect a change to values more appropriate to the age of Clinton...
iFREEBIES With Apple's new iTools, you can use your iMac's iMovie software to make a cool video clip, store it on a free iDisk on Apple's server or publish it on an Apple-provided home page--no HTML code needed. Post a photo, and you can send an iCard by e-mail to anyone you like...
LIGHTWEIGHT Not only is the new 600x1200-dpi scanner from Canon compact, light (3.3 lbs.) and easy to use, but it's powered solely by a USB connection, so you don't have to plug yet another cord into the wall. A front button offers one-touch scanning. Available by March...
...that they believe is better than the Pap test at identifying precancerous and malignant changes in the cervix--and could even replace it. But don't cancel your next gynecologic exam just yet. A lot more work needs to be done before the new test is ready for widespread use...