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...with the historic and moral implications of what passed for progress: Pain and a price attended progress. The last great convulsion brought steam and electricity, and with them an age of confusion and mounting war. A dim folk memory had preserved the story of a greater advance: "the winged hound of Zeus" tearing from Prometheus' liver the price of fire. Was the world ready for the new step forward? It was never ready. It was, in fact, still fumbling for the answers to the age of steam and electricity. Man had been tossed into the vestibule of another millennium...
When told to keep things "in perspective" and to take our minds off the little hassles that hound us, we often find it easy to dismiss the advice. Some feel that their frenzy allows them to get their work done better and thinking about anything else will mean neglecting important responsibilities...
...that can serve the dual purpose of a bedroom and a home office. "I'm usually in my room on the computer a lot," he explains. Form follows function in this abode. "I sit at my desk and the bookshelf is just an arms-length away." An admitted gadget hound, Price has a miniature communications center at his desk. A Motorola mobile phone abuts the Palm Pilot linked to his laptop. Next to the laptop: Price's PC. "I like to keep my files mobile, yet at the same time have the power of a desktop. I can download information...
...shameless publicity hound, Senator JoeMcCarthy picked victims whose prominence wouldassure him widespread coverage--and Harvard was aperfect target. For several years, McCarthy madeHarvard and Harvard professors his whipping boys...
Albert had been the emphatic voice of the New York Knicks and Rangers, the hound-dog face of NBC Sports, the favorite guest of David Letterman, and the proprietor of the most famous call in sports--Yesss! Along the way, though, he had evidently acquired some tastes and vices that clouded his judgment and apparently erased his understanding of the word no. On Feb. 12, Albert and a 42-year-old Virginia woman with whom he had had a 10-year-long sexual relationship arranged to meet at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at Pentagon City in Arlington. According...