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Like almost all children growing up in the Christian tradition, I was lied to as a child. My parents perpetrated an extensive and premeditated campaign of misinformation aimed at getting me to believe in something that did not exist. They went so far as to manufacture physical evidence, to collude with other parents to present erroneous facts with a straight face, even to threaten punishment if I were to collect data that might jeopardize the believability of their prevarication. At an age before I knew to be ever vigilant and to mistrust paternalism in all forms, my parents were using...
...Walmart.com and Target.com are suddenly the fastest-growing shopping destinations on the Web. Over the past five weeks, visits to "multichannel" dotcoms (a.k.a. clicks-and-mortar, those with a catalog or store behind them) have shot up 67%, compared with a 42% seasonal rise for "pure-play" merchants (which exist only online, like Amazon.com) Walmart.com alone is gaining 80% more cybershoppers every week. Incoming CEO Jeanne Jackson raised eyebrows when she closed the site for renovations two months ago. Now the revamp is paying off. "We're just starting to figure out how this functions," she says. "It's barely...
...future, we've moved into it. Yesterday is history. Familiar forms will disappear. Who needs fiction when we have "Survivor" and the Florida Supreme Court? And new formats will change what designer Bruce Mau calls "the global image economy." Soon the multiplexes will go digital; "films" will no longer exist. We're already consuming e-books, e-movies, e-music. Egad...
...trials, especially given the pretentious delivery that is reminiscent of a bad English lecture. Yet the time warp does not seem out of place in the context of the play, nor is the scene entirely without purpose. Janiak, despite the facade, reminds the audience that homosexuality did not exist as a concept before 1890 and also explains the failure of Wilde as a champion of gay rights...
Although electronic systems have received the most media attention in the aftermath of the election, voting machines need neither be computerized nor expensive. A number of mechanical systems exist that make it virtually impossible to vote for two candidates simultaneously and that allow voters to see easily whether they have not chosen any candidate...