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...loved being able to lie on my bed and flip from a ska music station in New Jersey to pop music from Greece in less than a second. Unfortunately, I can't turn my PC and Net connection off with the remote. So, just when I'm about to drift off listening to Beethoven.com I have to sleepwalk to my PC, log off and power down...
...couldn't make music. To her the Staples Center was the world's largest day-care center, and she the patient teacher, mouthing bromides in the singsongy style that Al Gore rose above for his own address. Along about the third reference to helping children, the audience began to drift. By the time she was saying thank you (for what she didn't say), many had lost the will to live. If the film introducing the President hadn't been mesmerizing, the walk dramatic and Elvis determined to leave the building quaking, the chill she cast might not have lifted...
Stine's prophecy got the drift of the future right but erred on the details. It took far less than a decade for droves of young readers to desert his two series; and the other things he foresaw himself doing turn out to look spookily like the things he was doing before...
...years searching for an elusive Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. But Republican critics, while supporting these efforts, are concerned that relationships far more fundamental to U.S. national interests, such as those with China and with Russia, have been allowed, through neglect, inconsistency and even opinion poll-driven judgment, to drift into dangerous waters...
...there more potential pitfalls? There are. Among other things, there is the possibility that as transgenes in pollen drift, they will fertilize wild plants, and weeds will emerge that are hardier and even more difficult to control. No one knows how common the exchange of genes between domestic plants and their wild relatives really is, but Margaret Mellon, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists' agriculture and biotechnology program, is certainly not alone in thinking that it's high time we find out. Says she: "People should be responding to these concerns with experiments, not assurances...