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...significant works of literature—defined in the broadest sense to include really any field of study: when you are directly in touch with profound writing and thought, when you are talking in an engaged way with others about such work, then you are likely to feel completely alert, alive and enlarged. And that is education...
...omission I have committed that, in a year or so, I will no longer be able to commit (or omit) because my mobile phone, by law, will give me away. A teensy chip in a tiny chipset somewhere in the inner workings of my cell-phone handset will alert some 27 satellites, known as the global positioning system (originally launched by and for the U.S. military to keep track of missiles and stuff), of my whereabouts. Enough of those satellites will beam back my location to my carrier that it will have a pretty good idea (within a dozen...
...that's only the beginning. Using a Chatpen, you could check a box on an advertisement printed on digital paper (in your local newspaper or in this magazine) and alert the advertiser that you want more information. Or imagine catalogs printed on digital paper: just check off the items you want and write down your credit-card number or whatever future payment system takes hold - no need to make a call or go to a website. Your local supermarket could send you lists of everything it has in stock, and you mark what you need and write down the quantities...
...Israel forces shot down the single-engined Cessna 152 after the pilot refused to respond to attempts by Israeli aircraft to communicate with him is hardly surprising, given that the date is the first anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon and that its forces were on high alert against the possibility of attacks by the Hizballah guerrilla army that has continued to attack Israeli positions in the Shebaa Farms area of the border...
...Shrek's sidekick, a pest, a troublemaker, a nonstop talker, and he may just harbor secret dreams of pop stardom. Mostly, though, he represents the reality principle in the movie--hooves on the ground, big ears swivelingly alert for false and dangerous notes. His vocal characterization is supplied by Eddie Murphy, and it is fair to say that not since Robin Williams in Aladdin has an actor so deliciously appropriated a movie. Whether he's fending off the sudden amorous attentions of Fiona's dragon, proposing an evening of man-to-man conversation with Shrek--to be followed...