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...when the wolf still seems hungry. For Armstrong and Malone, who is spending $1.8 billion to ready TCI cables for two-way voice and data traffic, the future is virtually here--and it looks astonishingly lucrative. Malone sees an imminent convergence of TV, telephone and computer services--long the grail of digital thinkers--that will allow customers to access all three separately or at once, simply by aiming and clicking a hand-held device at a TV set. Of course, this convergence has seemed "imminent" to Malone for the past half-decade, but new technology--most of it based...
...water, food and freedom to move, all of which the leopard jealously guards, though it otherwise remains far more docile and generous than Augustin has any reason to expect. When the soldier discovers a gigantic facade of columns and stairs within the mountain (an identical twin to the Grail-house in Indiana Jones and the last Crusade), we expect the film's early fascination with archaeology to return; Augustin, however, only has eyes for the cat, all the more beautiful and fascinating to him for not being man-made...
...transmitted." Sadly, this patient, part of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicates otherwise. It is yet another reminder to scientists that a cure for AIDS still dances well beyond their reach -- and that a vaccine, now more than ever, is the field's Holy Grail...
Unfortunately, Springfest is like the Black Knight from The Holy Grail: it refuses to die even though it has no way to support itself. The administration has proved that it will never allocate enough money to buy big-name bands and that it will never relax its alcohol policies enough to allow for a true college-style "fest." And the council seems more preoccupied with fighting the administration over frozen yogurt at Annenberg than with lobbying for better Springfest entertainment...
Unfortunately, Springfest is like the Black Knight from The Holy Grail: it refuses to die even though it has no way to support itself. The administration has proved that it will never allocate enough money to buy big-name bands and that it will never relax its alcohol policies enough to allow for a true college-style "fest." And the council seems more preoccupied with fighting the administration over frozen yogurt at Annenberg than with lobbying for better Springfest entertainment...