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...Single people, such as you, probably take less time than others. To answer the question, Patricia Kelly, assistant division chief for forms design and printing in the Decennial Systems and Contract Management Office of the Census Bureau (she must have foldout business cards), used three separate, entirely unscientific sample groups in arriving at the estimate. First, she asked a group of colleagues with a wide range of educational backgrounds and household sizes to take the new forms home and jot down how long it took to complete them. Next, she asked friends and neighbors to do the same. Finally, Kelly...
...Bedtime Stories Bedrooms will be smaller, with a space-saving, foldout Murphy bed. Since cyberspace will be the arena for personal display, we will have fewer personal effects to store in the closet...
...borrow a famous phrase from Karl Marx, "All that is solid melts into air"--was melting already, as of 1911, and forming large and inconvenient puddles on the floor, quite insusceptible to the morally muscular moppings of outraged critics. Here one directs the reader to the foldout chart elsewhere in these pages. Prepared with much disputatious--not to say rebellious--muttering by this magazine's critics, it lists the century's "best" work in every facet of the arts. Its most interesting aspect is the intensely clustered dates of the works representing the major expressive forms...
...multimedia and interactive barrage like no other before it, with children mesmerized into cataloging a menagerie of multiplicative monsters, with trading cards linked to games linked to television shows linked to toys linked to websites linked to candy linked back to where you started--a pestilential Ponzi scheme (see foldout graphic). Smelling profits, America's conglomerates have pokeyed up to cash in. Hasbro paid $325 million to market the toys. The WB network (owned by Time Warner, the parent company of this magazine) swept up exclusive rights to the top-rated animated TV series. Warner released the Pokemon movie...
...know we wanted but suddenly can't live without. This fall we'll learn whether America's been yearning for a blueberry laptop built of bulletproof polycarbonate plastic (to make it, Ive explains, "rugged, robust, structural") and co-molded rubber (to make it "compliant, yielding, human"). And a little foldout handle. And a sleep light that throbs like a heartbeat. And a sleek, round charger whose cord rolls up like...