Word: digitization
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Craftsmanship is one of those old-fashioned words ruined by decades of pompous automobile ads. Applied to fiction, the word suggests a stubbornly unfashionable emphasis on structure and language over movie tie-ins and seven- digit advances. As Max Saw It (Knopf; 146 pages; $21) -- Louis Begley's second novel after his award-winning 1991 debut, Wartime Lies -- is simultaneously contemporary and the work of an elegant craftsman of the old school. Containing nary an ill-chosen word, As Max Saw It may turn out to be the most perfectly constructed novel...
...from there, Harvard took off. Paced by excellent teamwork, aggressive penetration from senior guard Cara Frey, sophomore guard Elizabeth Proudfit and Gelman, and the inside game of junior Tammy Butler, the Crimson scored six straight points and gradually went about building a double-digit lead. At the half, Harvard...
...Yeshorim runs five test centers in the New York area. Each participant receives a six-digit identification number and gives a blood sample; test workers analyze his or her DNA to determine whether it contains certain disease-carrying genes. Before two members of the community begin dating or decide to get married, they can call a hot line which tells them whether or not they risk passing any of the diseases to their children...
When the rabbi, or any other official, asks for opposition to the eternal union of two people, a six-digit ID number should not answer the call...
These countries face far more chronic unemployment than the U.S., and double-digit jobless rates are common even in good years. Roughly half of those on the dole have been out of work for more than a year, as opposed to 6% in the U.S. The social-protection system designed to help people through the rough patches "suddenly is needed massively and for a long time by millions of jobless," says Lothar Stock, who heads a social-welfare organization in Frankfurt. "The system cannot cope with these new conditions...