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...with such impunity? The answer is that the INS is simply outmanned: with 6,000 miles of open borders, a burgeoning population of illegals and a relatively static force of only 5,600 agents, the U.S. has effectively lost control of its territorial integrity, especially in the Southwest. Duke Austin, a senior INS spokesman in Washington, puts it bluntly: "The system is -- there's no other word -- bankrupt, in money and resources...
...though such stories are true. On no opinion are the experts so unanimous as that the future belongs to the knowledge worker, master of his PC, fiber-optics whatsit, E-mail gizmo and whatever takes its place. One of the best windows into the future is supplied by an Austin, Texas, company with the rather dull name of Applied Materials Inc. Its founders set out quite deliberately to build a manufacturing facility for the 21st century, and since 1991 they have become the world's largest makers of machinery to produce computer chips...
...baby boomer who teaches political science at the Austin campus said in a seminar that she felt she knew almost everything about Kennedy, from the big mistakes in governing to the big womanizing -- a word that bespeaks evil to generations sensitive to feminism. And yet when she hears the name or thinks about the man, "I just melt...
Hollusion 3-D prints are manufactured by the Texas-based NVision Grafix, Inc. According to the company's vice president of marketing, Steve Kersen, the computer-generated posters first came out in August of 1992, when two UT-Austin grads, computer specialist Mike Bielinski and artist Paul Herber, teamed up to create the high-tech aesthetics of Hollusions. The image appears because, by looking "through" the poster instead of at its surface, your brain is tricked. The altered focal point creates the illusion of a three-dimensional image...
There are two startling passages in another new off-Broadway play, the keenly observed if scattershot Sophistry, set on a college campus. One features Austin Pendleton, whose credits stretch back to Fiddler on the Roof and Oh, Dad, Poor Dad. The other belongs to Anthony Rapp, 21. When they meet as teacher and student in a sexual encounter that degenerates into a harassment charge, Rapp's blend of rocketing energy and terror turned bravado rules the stage...