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...passion was tea bowls--the "active," intimately handled objects of a ceremony that, imported from China, had been turned by its first Japanese grandmaster, Sen No Rikyu, into a cultural rite linked to Zen Buddhism. The "way of tea" had become an essential part of the samurai-influenced code of upper Japanese behavior. It connoted roughness, naturalness and--at its origins, at least--lack of pretension. In it, aesthetics and morality were conjoined, under the sign of severe restraint...
...first, I suspected that "fuzzy math'' simply meant "inaccurate numbers.'' But Bush flatly refused to replace Gore's fuzzy numbers by clean-shaven ones of his own, so eventually this idea began to seem untenable. Then, for awhile, I concluded that "fuzzy math'' was code for "high-fallutin' Washington-style use of numbers instead of words.'' But I was also unable to hold on to this belief for too long, because Bush himself cited plenty of numbers as the evening progressed...
French microchip engineer Jean-Pierre Gloton slips a thin rectangle of plastic into a port linked to a PC and types in a code. Voila! A personalized Web navigator blossoms on the screen. "With this, I can access various e-mail accounts and websites, trade stocks, buy goods and pay bills with a single click, using personal and banking information stored in a fraud-proof way," says Gloton, 56, as he removes the "smart card" that gives him these powers and returns it to his wallet. "This card contains a microchip that makes it a veritable minicomputer--with memory...
...begin issuing smart cards designed by Gemplus. They will compete with American Express's new Blue smart card, which can be used in personal computers equipped with card readers. These systems provide excellent security for online shopping; the purchase won't go through unless the owner types in a code that matches the one stored on the card's chip...
Both seemed to be addressing each other and their advisors rather than the general public, speaking in code words and bullet points that require significant interpretation. On the debate's major issues of on foreign policy, discrimination issues, health care and the environment, voters must know where their candidates stand in order to make the right decision in November...