Word: accessability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...questions arose out of a working demonstration of the Portal Project, an initiative that will give FAS affiliates access to a personalized Web site with constantly updated links to Harvard information...
...increased use of genetic testing and information, while bringing incredible new therapeutic and diagnostic tools, also raises significant social and ethical concerns. Who will have access to genetic information and in what applications will it be used? Should health insurers use genetic information to issue policies? What about employers? In absence of any salient federal legislation on the issue, some 34 state legislatures nationwide have carefully debated these issues and implemented genetic information laws of varying strength. Still, residents of the remaining states--including Massachusetts--remain unprotected from misuse of genetic information...
...DVDs and edit digital videos. Jobs has a long history of divining the high-tech future, often recognizing it in technology other people invented: the mouse. The visual desktop. The laser printer. Rainbow-hued PCs. The wireless laptop. Now, years before most people have even heard of broadband Internet access, Jobs has bet the farm on the convergence of his two companies' products. Digital video, he proclaimed at the iMac launch last week, is "the next big thing...
...into the picture, long-distance rates--now about as low as they've ever been--are unlikely to spurt higher. In the long run, the MCI WorldCom-Sprint combination may push us a little faster to telecom nirvana: one-stop shopping for local, long distance and wireless service; Internet access; and cable TV. Imagine all those connections in one jack (plus wireless) and a single bill based on how much data flows through the electronic spigot. We're headed there. But until that world emerges several years from now, you'll have to face the quagmire of fees, plans...
...experience is simplicity itself, designed to have you up and on the Internet within 10 minutes. Only two components need to be plugged in: the keyboard and the mouse, which slide into ports on the side of the machine rather than the back, which makes them much easier to access. Under the hood, you get terrific value, including 128 megs of RAM, a 13-gig hard drive, a DVD drive (including a complimentary copy of A Bug's Life) and a superfast graphics card...