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Kontoff said he hopes to get his vending job back and possibly to alert other to what he calls injustice. He said he will not give up his quest, and plans to continue protesting in the Square on a daily basis...
...like I don't have reasons. If I don't have any caffeine, I feel drowsy and am unable to pay close attention in class. I'm paying $22,000 a year for school, aren't I? I owe it to myself to be alert...
...used to justify anything, as in, "Sorry I haven't returned your phone calls for a month, Mom, but I had a paper to write," or "I really should vacuum my room, but I have so much reading...." It works the same way with coffee: "I have to be alert this week, I have 14 midterms to study for." Or "every moment is essential because I have the MCATs next month." Or "I'll never graduate summa if I get more than two hours of sleep a night. Besides, college is only four years. I have the rest...
...BEGINNING WAS THE BEEP -- simple, utilitarian and sufficient to alert a computer user that his machine had been turned on or that a floppy disk had failed. Then came the Macintosh, with its built-in sound chips and an onscreen control panel that enabled Mac enthusiasts to replace the beep with a boing, a clink-clank or a monkey's chirp. Finally, last spring Microsoft put sound- control software in the latest version of its Windows program, extending the power to customize a computer's noises to the 90 million owners of IBM PCs and compatible machines...
...persisted through a funeral gathering in Hamburg that attracted 10,000, and then into last weekend, when a crowd many times as large gathered in Munich. Images of marchers carrying banners asking such questions as HOW MANY CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO FALL TO TERROR SO THAT BONN WILL BE ALERT? flashed across the nation's television screens. Pointed criticism poured in from abroad, including condemnations from the governments of Turkey and Israel. THE SILENCE OF TOO MANY ACCOMPLICES, headlined Italy's La Stampa...