Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mass. Ave. resident reports that while at 2 Holyoke Pl. an unknown person stole her coat valued at $180. The coat contained a California driver's license, Harvard ID card and $60 cash...
Loker Nite was similarly unsuccessful, and the project in which council delegates performed "Random Acts of Kindness" was a failure as well: besides the first-years, only three of the 12 houses participated, spending a combined total of $70 on purchases that included flowers, candy and a giant greeting card--hardly the building blocks of substantive community. Certainly all these efforts were made with the best of intentions, but that does not change the fact that they were unsuccessful...
...visibility. As the journalist Kevin Kelly has noted, the old-fashioned, small-town lack of privacy was symmetrical. You knew the people who were watching you, and you could watch them back. These days, you are not on a first-name basis with the computers that track your credit-card purchases or your Web browser's wanderings--or with the people who, for all you know, can access those computers. It's this sense of a distant, cloaked observer that's really eerie...
...works for MCI. By 1999, an estimated 16 million people will have purchased (from VocalTec and others), or downloaded for free, software that enables them to talk to fellow computer owners through their PCs, although if you go this route, you will probably also need a sound card and microphone. Others prefer to make computer-to-telephone calls using Web services like IDT's Net2Phone that patch them through to any phone in the world for about 10[cents] a minute. I've been holding out for a gadget that will let me make long-distance Internet calls without using...
...newcomer to Nashville, Moorer writes songs that have an airy, panoramic sound and enough lonesome twang to fill a steel-guitar convention. She also comes with an impressive calling card: her lovely acoustic ballad A Soft Place to Fall was a breakout hit from the soundtrack to last spring's The Horse Whisperer. Moorer's deft songwriting proves she can live up to the advance billing. Classic mid-tempo heartbreakers like Tell Me Baby and Set You Free are her specialty, coaxing a gorgeously plaintive edge from her voice. Moorer may not have the pipes to belt it out like...