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"You need to prepare for some short disruption of service," Cox said.
President Thabo Mbeki?s government is committed to fiscal discipline in order to attract desperately needed foreign investment, but its constituents are under mounting pressure in an economy showing no more than 2 percent growth ?- and suffering painful blows in such key sectors as gold mining. "The increase demanded by...
"Construction is pretty well confined to the courtyard," he said. "By and large, we expect little disruption to the library operations."
"It meant we got to have a two-week training cycle without the disruption of a race or a weigh-in," Fallows said. "That takes a lot of energy of you. Not having a weigh-in meant we could train all of Thursday, Friday and Saturday."
SF's saga of the techno-sublime is about power, speed and transcendence of human limits. Ray guns, starships, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, nanotechnology--all beloved of SF, and every last one of them a big Technicolor disruption of the mundane.