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...into the machine with a tiny penlike stylus that traces letters onto the touch-sensitive screen, like an Etch-A-Sketch. To help Pilot turn those squiggles into English (the Achilles' heel of the Newton, which was likely to translate GET LUNCH into EAT COUCH), users must write in Graffiti, a simplified written language that replaces each letter with a geometric pattern; an A looks like an upside down V, for instance. It took us 10 minutes to learn, and after a week we were up to about 80% of our normal writing speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEST DRIVE | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

...wholesome community. "We've seen what it does to other communities," says Harvard High School assistant principal Dean A. Albright. "We felt it was better to get on the ball and prevent it before it became a problem." Albright says the worst crimes he's seen are occasional vandalism, graffiti and minor drug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvards of The World | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

...wholesome community. "We've seen what is does to other communities," says Harvard High School assistant principal Dean A. Albright. "We felt it was better to get on the ball and prevent it before it became a problem." Albright says the worst crimes he's seen are occasional vandalism, graffiti and minor drug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvards of The World | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

Assistant Dean of the Summer School Michael J. Prokopow first announced the no-guest policy three weeks ago, in an effort to stop a wave of vandalism that fouled the dormitory with obscene graffiti and human waste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ban on Thayer Visitors Lifted | 8/6/1996 | See Source »

...WALL, FROM THE HEART: VOTIVE GRAFFITI AT GRACELAND On the 6-ft.-tall, 180-yd.-long limestone wall surrounding Graceland, visitors scrawl thousands of messages, usually in Magic Marker. Gary Vikan, director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, sketches parallels between two categories of pilgrims: visitors to Graceland and early Christian acolytes. "What was true of early sacred travel is true of Graceland today," he says. "People leave votive offerings behind and take away relics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 29, 1996 | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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