Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process easier and more accessible to more people," says David Rencher of the Family History Library, but, he points out, they can also perpetuate mistakes, since "it's also impossible to call back information." Cautions archivist Connie Potter of the National Archives: "What with websites, e-mails, faxes and cell phones, people think they are going to find information right away once it's on a computer system. They're not. It's a complex, time-consuming process. You start with one fact, and it can take forever to verify...
Desperately seeking new features to distinguish their wares, pager and cell-phone makers are replacing beeps and rings with popular melodies. Nokia's 6100-series cell phones perform The Lone Ranger's theme song (a.k.a. the William Tell overture), the ever popular Charleston Rag and Beethoven's Fur Elise, while Philips' Myna pager croons Over the Rainbow and The X-Files song. Earplugs, anyone...
President Clinton, who went to see the New China of entrepreneurs and cell phones, was welcomed with a ceremony from the Old China, featuring actors and musicians in elaborate Tang dynasty costumes. Both Chinese and American officials hoped this nine-day trip would, by pointing up positive changes since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, promote what a senior State Department official called "the de-demonization of China...
...have so far managed to avoid buying a cellular telephone. But the trainshouters are doing me in. I refer to the guys on my commuter train who bellow their intimate business strategies into their cell phones, oblivious to people like me: decent, hardworking folk who may have sleepless infants at home and who look forward to a little nap time. Last week I came up with a way to protect my constitutional Right to Snooze. But first I needed a wireless phone...
...time.com for a detailed review of five cell phones. E-mail Josh at jquit@well.com Watch him and Anita Hamilton on CNNfn at 7:30 p.m. E.T. on Wednesdays...