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...Palestine Liberation Organization, whose constituents want East Jerusalem as a future capital. (Israel has claimed sovereignty since it captured the area from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war.)TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyersays Israel also succumbed to "threats to kill warming ties" by Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and other brand-new allies among moderate, pro-American Arab states. Worse, Arab countries have been planning a summit specifically to condemn the land confiscation. Says Beyer: "It was building into a much bigger headache...
...trying to figure out how to write about this experience we are all having together," he said in one posting. "In many different traditions, to be alive is to immerse oneself intensely and directly in the world. This is a new part of the human world, a brand-new social construction made up mainly of people talking to one another through keyboards and screens. Immersing myself in it even more so than I already have is part of being alive for me . and part of dying...
...spent her entire life. The height of her success is captured in a beautifully shot sequence where Ettore takes his mother out on the new motorcycle she has bought for him. The two speed through the streets of Rome, shouting excitedly to one another and laughing loudly atop the brand-new, shiny symbol of Mamma Roma's petit-bourgeois accomplishments...
...then kept going up. Occasionally one of the services would cut me off for nonpayment -- because I wasn't off-line enough to open the bills. My work and financial records moved to a corner of the living room as I reassigned home-office space; after all, a brand-new 386- model PC, color monitor, fast dot-matrix printer and 2400 bps modem deserved their own desk and room. Visits to local computer supermarkets became more frequent than trips to neighborhood bookstores. Relatives and friends complained about busy signals and demanded that I get home voice-mail service...
...technology, this may seem just an amusing, if eccentric, tale. But others may find it all too familiar. If you need help, you can send me E-mail; I'm sure I won't be that far away from cyberspace. I still have to finish tuning up my brand-new Pentium 90 speedster with the 2-gigabyte SCSI drive, 32 megs of screaming RAM, a 17-in., 16.7 million color screen, 4x CD-ROM drive, V.34 superdata highway modem. But before taking it out for a spin...