Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rather a geeky delight that sits at the heart of the Web and e-mail revolution. Internet protocol (generally called IP) is a language computers use to talk to one another: a hyperefficient chatter that lets phone-company machines banter by sending digital data "packets" back and forth. These packages can contain anything--a frame of video, a few lines of a fax or a split second of conversation. The computers don't care what kind of data they are moving, which makes for a faster, cheaper way to send information...
Today the new creation involved in cloning is no doubt visionary (Frankenstein goes partners with Henry Ford in the mass production of life) and also plunges forth into mystery, though of a different sort from that approached by astronauts. Think of the 50 Hawaiian mice and then extrapolate, taking your metaphysics as far as your imagination will carry you. What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication...
...minds drift back and forth between the sacred and the mundane: between our ideas, our myths about ourselves, on one hand, and on the other our everyday, mortal disorder, our contradictions, our injustices and our need for the law. In the borderland between the two realms we encounter the dangerous, interesting kingdom of lies...
...golf balls, and perhaps that's the way Americans who watched it will remember him. But Kluger says that Shepard was known as "the ice commander" for good reason. "He was either all business or he was this genial swashbuckling rocket jock, and he would switch back and forth without warning, according to his own internal clock." Whatever foibles this space pioneer carried inside him, they never poisoned the camaraderie among the original seven Mercury astronauts named by NASA in April 1959. Not too long ago, says Kluger, Shepard was talking to John Glenn about Glenn's upcoming space flight...
...could have gone on talking well beyond the hour, and in fact he stayed 45 minutes after the taping, going back and forth with us. He was in his element as Schmoozer...