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...course, if they have to, and if Kennedy and O'Connor don't get peeled, the Staying Five could still just ring the bell for the Republicans, on the logic that a half-baked hand count wasn't going to make the scoring any more accurate. We'll get over it - by most accounts, this non-election fight between two non-presidents still has the American people cheering at the TV as bemusedly as they would for any Don King-sponsored heavyweight bout. But as December shortens, the people are scanning the arena for a credible referee before the brawl...
...guess when Lynyrd Skynyrd can release a Christmas album, you can get away with anything... listening to "Run, Run Rudolph" ranks as one of my more excrutiating Yuletide moments. "Freebird" it isn't. It's almost as bad as the worst Christmas song ever, "Jingle Bell Rock...
...said he was "quite happy" to learn that he was a winner. He has extensive research experience in computer science. For four summers, he has worked at Bell Labs, completely revamping the company's graphics system. He is interested in the use of file system abstractions to simplify programs and the interfaces between them...
...Italian Antonio Meucci set up the world's first phone line, on Staten Island, N.Y. But he never marketed his idea. A few years later the German Johann Philipp Reis made a device he dubbed a telephone, over which he transmitted music. Alexander Graham Bell knew of Reis' experiments, and by 1876 had created the modern phone. A few hours after Bell filed his patent papers, Elisha Gray submitted an application for his own phone. Since Bell was first to apply, he reaped the glory...
...technological endeavor, there are few if any cases in which the end was exactly what was intended at the beginning. In the mid-19th century, William Perkin sought a way to make artificial quinine out of coal tar and ended up with the first aniline dye. Alexander Graham Bell thought the telephone would be used only to inform people of the arrival of telegrams. Alessandro Volta designed a eudiometer for exploding bad-smelling gases with electricity. It ended up as the spark plug. A 1983 interuniversity computer network, intended as an academic exchange, ended up as www.everything...