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...those who cannot witness the exercises firsthand should not despair. Boston's WGBX-TV, Channel 44 will televise the proceedings and WHRB (95.3 FM) will broadcast them...
...objects and move them as fast as they would move in real life, has come of age. Architects are using 3-D technology to let clients walk through buildings before they are constructed. Scientists employ it to visualize phenomena too fast, too small or too explosive to be seen firsthand. Industry is relying on it to speed up design and production cycles...
...good book. It simply must. I haven't any choice." To readers today, the fascination of this document rests in its portrait of an artist at the peak of his skills. Steinbeck's outrage at the mistreatment of Dust Bowl migrants in California, which he had witnessed firsthand, fused with his storytelling abilities to produce the most powerful book he would ever write. It won him the Pulitzer Prize and contributed mightily to his Nobel Prize in 1962. Both exhilarated and exhausted after finishing the book, Steinbeck wondered whether he would ever write so well again: "That part...
...began forming early at the Golf Mill shopping center in Niles, Ill. When the doors at the Sears, Roebuck store finally opened at noon, customers were welcomed with coffee, cake and brightly colored balloons. From Waikiki to Watertown, N.Y., crowds poured into Sears' 823 outlets last week to see firsthand the transformation of America's largest retailer. After closing its stores for 42 hours -- the longest weekday shutdown in the retail chain's 103-year history -- Sears permanently slashed prices by as much as 50% on 50,000 products, or about three-fourths of its inventory...
Havel, 52, is not only a playwright and essayist but also a popular Czech hero who has firsthand knowledge of the Prague regime's harsh treatment of dissidents. In the past two decades he has spent a total of 4 1/2 years behind bars for his activities as a founding member of the Charter 77 human rights organization...