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...hard way to treat their computers gingerly, but last week I deliberately tried to cripple mine. First, I deleted every cheap program that came pre-installed on my year-old PC, wiping out a sea of icons cluttering my screen. Then I took a dozen programs off my bookshelf and installed them one by one, praying for disaster. I hooked up a joystick. I installed a video card. When warning signs sprang up, informing me of the potential hazards of my rampage, I ignored them. Finally, I clicked on the Windows system file that controls my PC and deleted files...
...project fresh from two years of scouring the school library, the public library and any bookstores within walking distance for every tidbit of equine knowledge available in print. The 800-word limit seemed hugely unreasonable--I had so much to explain. How could a subject which occupied my entire bookshelf at home be reduced to four double-space pages of loosely cursive script...
...Behind the locked door lies the New Frontier, a frontier that tickles the nose with "a whiff of history," as another guest put it. The door opens to a quaint sitting room, bedroom, kitchenette and bathroom while books by and about the President overflow the bookshelf and framed photos and newspaper clippings deck the walls. Here, a snapshot of the swimming team; there, JFK attending the Harvard-Columbia football game in 1963; upon the bedroom door, the 1940 University Class Day Program announcing all the swingin' graduation activities. "There's a flavor to it," says Catherine L. McLaughlin, deputy director...
...interviewer] turns around, gets a book off the bookshelf, asks me if I am familiar with this book, and tells me to read the paragraph [explaining that] 'hopefully' is incorrect grammar," said the student, who asked that her name be withheld...
Curtis said she was likely to put her pudding pot on her bookshelf at home, "next to my self-help books and books about mothering," she said...