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...anything has been posted on the discussion page, and behold, the professor has posted the solution to the problem! You check the solution and immediately recognize the flaw in your program that has been plaguing you all night. You fix a few lines in your program and grab a few hours of sleep before class the next morning. Is this cheating? Of course...
...patiently. Yet in these marry-a-millionaire times, the pursuit of instant and effortless fortune is being hammered home like never before: state lotteries, legalized gambling, day trading, Internet IPOs and, you guessed it, high-stakes game shows on every network. The message is clear: Patience is for losers; grab your share now. If you can't get past the qualifying round of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, take out a loan and spend anyway--as though you never even needed a lifeline. Trouble is, many of us do need a lifeline desperately. Consumers are up to their eyeballs...
...Reason will probably not engender any new angst-ridden debates about the state of the modern career women, but it does continue Fielding's fine form. In the tradition of comic novels, there's even a marriage at the end, although this reviewer is not about to say whose. Grab a Chardonnay; it's time to keep up with this Jones...
...make it so easy for someone to reach out and grab one," he says...
...Virtual City. So it's all the more remarkable that a 22-month-old weekly called the Industry Standard is already living up to its moniker. Based in San Francisco and owned by Boston computer trade publisher IDG, the Standard set out in April 1998 to grab Internet business readers by appropriating the authority of a newsweekly--right down to the red banner and text-heavy layout. Says former design director Daniel Carter: "We wanted to come out and sound like we knew what we were talking about...