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...million shares traded daily, but they also account for nearly 100% of the anxiety that the big Wall Street firms are feeling as technology reduces the complex world of securities to its barest minimum--carrying out a transaction. Wall Street's role then becomes something on the order of checkout clerk. This comes at a time when more and more investors are buying stocks. At one point less than 5% of Americans owned stocks; now more than...
...then but apparently got by on a few hundred dollars a year, with plenty of free time for his growing vocation: the disruption of the industrial society he had left behind. A fellow bank customer claims Kaczynski had some assets, yet six weeks ago he applied for a checkout clerk's job at Blackfoot market, which now sports a sign reading NO MEDIA, NO PRESS. Sherry Wood, the Lincoln librarian, is equally tight-lipped, though one of the library's unpaid volunteers has described his reading habits to the press. "I would go to jail before disclosing anything about...
...great equalizer," says futurist Alvin Toffler. "You don't have to be big and rich to apply the kind of judo you need in information warfare. That's why poor countries are going to go for this faster than technologically advanced countries." An infowarrior could be anyone in the checkout line at the local computer store. "It doesn't require huge masses of money," says Donald Latham, a former Pentagon communications czar. "A few very smart guys with computer workstations and modems could endanger lives and cause great economic disruption...
...Francisco Bay Area shows that commonplace life has improved dramatically for them since the advent of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Several years ago, for example, Breslin stopped at a drugstore near her home in Berkeley. The tight turnstiles at the entrance made access difficult, the checkout aisles were too narrow for her wheelchair, and Breslin had to wheel backward against the flow of other shoppers after she paid her bill. On a recent visit, she found that the store, now run by a different retailer, was much easier to deal with. There were no turnstiles to negotiate...
...line is good for something, though. Thecoach of the varsity crew team shows up to checkout the new crop of first years, zeroing in on thetallest ones who just might be interested inrising at 5 a.m. to row on the chilly Charles.Short students will be asked to be coxswains.Average-heighted students will be ignored...