Word: fax
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First of all, we must move part of the workplace from the office to the home, if necessary. With cellular phones, laptop computers and fax machines, parents with toddlers should be able to stay home with them and work from a personal office. The quality of work will not necessarily suffer and may even improve; knowing that their children are safe at home will add to workers' peace of mind and allow them to focus entirely on work for a few concentrated hours...
Along with 40 classmates, Ash spent three weeks in a simulated office, practicing how to answer the phone, send a fax, file a letter. His goal: a $7-an-hour job. "I want an office job dealing with the public." His dream? That one day, with a steady job and a nest egg, he will actually take a vacation...
...without stepping into a puddle of trouble? With the Christian Right and its political cronies on one side and a gaggle of cultural protectionists on the other, it's now possible for even a G-rated film to annoy somebody, anybody, with a special interest and access to a fax machine...
Fringe groups have found the Internet useful, but they've found fax machines useful, too. As someone said a few days after Oklahoma City bombing, when the 'Net was being blamed for its role in militia organizing. The telephone has been invaluable to militias as well, and no one's running lead stories decrying the revolutionary potential of phones...
...would never buy anything without seeingthe original because you simply can't tell[authenticity] from a fax," she said...