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...athlete's start registers under 0.100 seconds, the level declared to be unbeatable by scientific tests of human ability, the starter receives a beep in his headset to notify him of the false start, and he fires again to halt the race...
...crank up the stereo simply by speaking commands into the Cyber Suite's electronic "Butler in a Box." There's a fully wired wide-screen net TV for easy video conferencing and Web surfing, a new digital videodisc player that shows films in eight different languages and a headset for exploring the make-believe world of virtual reality. "Thirty years ago, we were the first hotel to have color TVs in all the guest rooms," says hotel managing director Jim Petrus. "Now we're redefining state...
...middle with their hands up, elbowing each other in the head." During a race, at least, their 105-lb. cox Yaz, who also coxed the team at the '92 Olympics, when they took sixth, is left to sort through the egos as best she can, barking into her headset commands that the rowers receive via speakers mounted inside the boat, to the profound annoyance of the women wielding the oars. "I have to pace them, to see if they can handle it," says Farooq, 29. "Our team--hah!--they can handle...
...True, she compares the Holocaust to other issues such as racism, sexism and nuclear waste disposal. Yet she handles all of the issues so deftly and with such balance that, despite the darkness and horror that fill the journey, one continues to follow Chicago's voice on the tiny headset through it, from the despair-filled beginning to the beautiful and hopeful ending...
...Metaverse customer-service rep. Bad: I don't have a cubicle in some Edge City office complex. I telecommute from home -- from her home, from her sofa. I sit there all day long, munching through my dwindling stash of tax-deductible jelly beans, wearing an operator's headset, gripping the control unit, using it like a puppeteer's rig to control other people's Rasters on other people's screens, all over the U.S. I can see them -- the wide-angle view from their set-top boxes is piped to a window on my screen. But they...