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...again, as though they are aware of how things must look to a bunch of outsiders and know that much of what is great and sweet and honorable in these places never makes headlines. The Cairo deputy fire chief will tell you how many people appear in an instant, out of nowhere, when a windstorm sweeps through town and smashes a block of homes. Anyplace you have good friends is a place worth staying. Here and elsewhere, there are big groups of people--ministers and teachers and store owners and bureaucrats--who are prepared to give all their time...
...overwhelm you with his. Of his job teaching high school science, he says, "It's just kinda fun to teach kids, to kinda show them how complex living things are, I guess. That's what I really kinda enjoy." LeVake is so profoundly nonconfrontational that he inspires instant trust. Which is why he is the perfect weapon in the new war over how evolution is--or isn't--being taught in public schools across the U.S. LeVake believes evolution is flat-out bad science. He can be very convincing...
There is a scene in the movie of "The English Patient" in which the party is riding across the dunes of the Egyptian desert. All is laughter and good humor until, in the fraction of an instant, a flicker of inattention, the car's wheels turn wrong, the vehicle flips over, and the characters' universe is suddenly, irreversibly changed - all in that laughter-to-disaster instant...
Things might have been different if I had had AOLTV. Scheduled to be introduced this week and available in early July from America Online (which is getting ready to merge with Time Warner, this magazine's parent company), AOLTV lets you send instant messages to friends right from the TV screen as you watch your favorite soap, baseball game or reality-TV show. AOLTV also lets you surf the Net and read e-mail. Best of all, you don't need a computer. Instead, you hook a VCR-like box up to your TV and run a phone cord from...
...long last week to see the shortcomings: set-up instructions are confusing; surfing the Web without a mouse is a drag; and if you only have one phone line in the house, you can't take phone calls when you're online. Unlike AOLTV, WebTV doesn't let you instant-message friends while watching...