Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fastest-growing part of distance learning is in continuing or executive education," says Brandon Hall, author of Web-Based Training Cookbook (John Wiley & Sons; $39.99), published last year. "Busy professionals trying to manage their work and personal lives can log on to a class late at night or early in the morning, or whenever is best for their schedule. And they're learning only what they really need to know to improve performance on their current job or maybe in preparation for that next...
...John Updike, Chelsea Clinton, Hans Christian Andersen..." Environmentalist Bill McKibben provides this enigmatic list in Maybe One, the latest in a series of gloomy, worthy, admonitory volumes he began in 1989 with The End of Nature. The new book is an effort to persuade couples, maybe, to consider--the author is excruciatingly tactful--reducing the strain on the earth's resources by having only one child...
...decided to have just one ("the light of my life"), after which he had a vasectomy, which he describes at great length. Journalist Margaret Talbot, who erupted at this in the New Republic last week, is unconvinced by "population doomsayers" and rejects a "politically correct family size." Of the author, whom she describes as a "yuppie yogi," she says, "He is irritating not only because he is so wrong, but also because he is so sanctimonious." Irritating but driven by an impulse to keep us from crowding nature into extinction, leaving the world "a sadder, lonelier" place...
...idea behind Amazon.com was devilishly simple: type in a book's title, the author's name or even just a general subject, and the site will present you with a list of every matching book in its database. Choose your title, type in your address and credit-card number, and service reps at Amazon.com's Seattle warehouse will find your order and mail it to you, usually within one or two days, and often at a hefty discount. Three years after launch, Amazon.com has 2.25 million worldwide customers, and sales that may reach $350 million this year...
...Have you heard of the author Martin Amis...