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Human beings, by nature, are a skeptical bunch. Fads and le dernier cri (the trendy French for "the latest trends," ironically) aside, we are often hesitant to accept concepts which are new and alien, especially when it comes to technology. Consider the group of Aristotelian professors who made the following pronouncement to Galileo after he claimed to have discovered Jupiter's moons using a telescope: "[They] are invisible to the naked eye and therefore do not exist." Or the snappish response of Warner Brothers' founder H. M. Warner, who retorted in a 1927 interview, "Who the hell wants to hear...
...think [race is] something that people look at. It's something very easy to see--that it's a bunch of conservative white males impeaching a black vice president," said Isaac J. Weiler '02, who is the secretary of the Black Men's Forum...
...boss is a loud, funny Italian, and so are a bunch of my coworkers. It's fun," Lloyd says. "We laugh and drink our espresso and program and design stuff, and they wander around singing Italian at the top of their lungs...
...really an opportunity to do something exciting on the cutting edge, something that really has the potential to make a bunch of people's lives better, which is really compelling for me," Alpert says...
...really their thing. We cheer some more - since that's our only voice and we figure it might earn us an autograph or an interview. MTV offers a duel between a person on the street and a caller for tickets to the night's show. Apparently, a bunch of girls in the studio know the caller from school. "That's Matt, oh my gosh, that's Matt!" they shriek. Matt must be hot. One of the girls is hysterical. Kelly glares at her again...