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...with my Apple IIGS. Late at night, I pine away for the exhilaration of traversing the Oregon Trail or tracking Carmen Sandiego, of creating Print Shop greeting cards on my dot-matrix printer or of using floppy disks that are actually floppy. My parents generously bestowed upon me a flat-screen monitor for my Dell, but despite its exquisite beauty and space-saving qualities, it’s really just a facelift masking an aging starlet who has seen one too many term papers...
...TIME'S account of James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery of the structure of DNA, was extensive and thorough [THE DNA REVOLUTION, Feb. 17]. I am studying biology in high school, and my textbook gives the impression that Watson and Crick completely deciphered the molecule in no time flat. Learning that they made mistakes at first, as everybody else does, reignited my interest in high school biology. MICHAEL YEE Huntington Beach, Calif...
...these devices will sell? They already do. In techno-savvy Japan, a recent survey showed that 50% of desktop PCs sold in January 2003 came with built-in hardware and software, allowing them to handle TV signals. In other words, the Japanese get it: they are plugging computers into flat-panel displays, forming a home-entertainment center with no idiot box required. For now, few will be initially willing to pay a converged price; an 81-cm Sony flat-panel TV and a Netvigator Pro media PC clock in at a combined $7,000. Prices won't remain so high...
Craig Newmark runs his empire from the first-floor parlor of a tidy Victorian-style flat in San Francisco's cozy Cole Valley neighborhood. "I spent all morning fighting evil," says the soft-spoken computer programmer, who founded a modest electronic mailing list for local San Francisco events in 1995 that has spread to 17 other cities, from Phoenix, Ariz., to Boston, and evolved into a virtual community drawing more than a million visitors a month. Through its online classified ads, racy personals and raucous discussion groups, Craig's List craigslist.org has become the best one-stop-shopping place...
...came out flat,” Floerchinger said. “We showed up a little bit tired...