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...coming into one's own. Beauty is largely visual, but we are greatly mistaken if we think that its constituent parts can be seen; it is only incidentally a matter of the eyes. We have heard and we continue to learn that it exists most of all in the instant of communion...
...know myself and my schedule well enough to imagine that teacher becoming my own personal Greek god of guilt. So I turn to that famous refuge of the half-assed hobbyist: the Learning Annex, New York City branch. I sign up for a three-hour, $39 course called "Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People." It's taught by Martin Moser, a sprightly ragtime fanatic. The course requires only that students be able to read music in the treble clef and be able to point to those notes on a piano keyboard. I'm there...
Such quaint simplicity is gone forever. Now you're as likely to send her a fax, an e-mail, an instant message or one of those Internet missives with dancing balloons and digital music. Even if you cling to traditional pen and paper, it's no longer clear how it will travel. Airborne Express? Overnight? Two-Day Priority...
...fading fast. Not even James Bond's nemesis Auric Goldfinger would try to rob the fort anymore; bullion is in a two-decade-long slump. Nowadays, real money doesn't glitter or clink. It blinks across the world's computer screens. More wealth is created--or destroyed--in an instant than J.P. Morgan could have comprehended. Net-savvy investors are reaping the rewards and assuming the risks of controlling their financial destiny...
COMBO CAMERA Do you love the convenience of digital cameras but miss that unforgettable instant-photo smell? Now you can have the best of both worlds with the C-211 Zoom, a new digital camera developed jointly by Olympus and Polaroid. It features a built-right-in printer that churns out copies of your digital snapshots on the spot, just like a conventional Polaroid. Its 2.1-megapixel images and 8MB memory card aren't too shabby, either. At $799 the C-211 is definitely a "prosumer" item, but it hints at better (and cheaper) things to come...