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...Cardigans is for Gen Y-ers, etc. In any case, I was happily skimming the columns, wondering what cliched label BusinessWeek would slap on me, when I realized that I was a cultural nonentity according to the magazine--just a bit of flotsam in this generational alphabet soup...
...British TV parlor game that made its debut in 1988. Performers are given characters to play, songs to devise, scenes to act out--all, we are told, instantly ad lib. A skit with a Zorro theme required that each actor's speech begin with consecutive letters of the alphabet. Series regular Ryan Stiles got the letter X. No problem: "Xavier Cugat once said...
...homemade gingerbread cookies. He encouraged America's children to "dive in and use the computer, even if they feel like maybe the other kids are better." He talked about his two-year-old daughter who "gets a kick" out of the software she's using to learn the alphabet. And he was warmly supportive when Stewart confided that her 84-year-old mother is getting started on e-mail. "That's fantastic," Gates told Stewart, with genuine interest. "With a few hours you can get very comfortable...
...frantically scribbling down notes in lecture, memorizing all the possible facts, dates and names of the required text, then regurgitating them for a caffeine-assisted paper or a hand-cramping three-hour exam. All this butter-churning and what's the grand prize? Why the first letter of the alphabet of all things, fancy that...
...want to identify which genes get turned on, or "expressed," by the immune system in the first few weeks after the AIDS virus begins its attack on the body. First you download the sequences of perhaps 10,000 genes--every A, C, G and T of the hereditary alphabet--into a computer. Then, still using the computer, you figure out what the mirror image of each sequence would be. (DNA can mirror itself as well as RNA.) The aim is to transform the mirror-sequence data into actual strands of DNA that are planted like rows of corn...