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...capable nor willing to curb militias such as Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad or Amal. Likewise, Syria, whose military occupies much of Lebanon and pulls the strings of the Lebanese marionette government, has no interest in guaranteeing Israel's security. For Syria, the prospect of peace in Lebanon is a bargaining chip to be used in negotiations regarding the Golan Heights. Without the security zone, major cities in the north of Israel, such as Haifa and Safed, would be in range of rockets fired from Lebanon...
That's been a boon to people like Renee Buckley, 27, who last month began work at an Intel chip plant after several semesters at Maricopa, where the company paid her $2,100-a-year tuition. A 1988 high-school grad, she had worked odd jobs and studied to be a nurse before lighting on microchips. "I wanted a good job in a growing field," she says. "This now looks like the most promising job I've ever...
...office is rather modest, sparsely decorated and filled with standard-issue furniture. The biggest piece of art is a huge photo of a Pentium processor chip. There are smaller pictures of Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Henry Ford, though he admits that he has little admiration for the latter. The few personal pictures include one of the original dozen Microsoft employees (most with scruffy beards, except him), one of Ann Winblad on a trip to Germany, and one with Melinda and nine friends on a 1995 vacation to Indonesia. There are no pictures of Jennifer displayed, but he pulls...
...thinking that it won't work that way. From what you've read, you understand the V chip to be so simple to use that a grownup can do it. That's what was said about VCRs. Yet we all know people like Bennett and Linda Weber, whose travails I reported on a year or two ago. The Webers thought they were pleased that their 26-year-old son Jeffrey had finally moved out of the house, and then they realized they had lost the ability to tape...
Someday, of course, people of Jeffrey's generation will be the parents in control, and they will be casually hooking up V chips to CD-ROMs and the Internet so that their children can play nonviolent, smut-free, four-dimensional Parcheesi with friends in Bangalore while listening to symphonic background music. Until then, though, any attempt at a techno-fix like the V chip will put the inmates in charge of the asylum...