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That far-out vision of computing may be coming to a PC near you sooner than you think. A company called FingerWorks has developed a computer keyboard that lets you complete such simple functions as clicking, scrolling and dragging by gesturing or moving your fingers across a new type of touch-and motion-sensitive surface...
...gratifying that you focused on the positive aspects of Rowling's series and not on the headline-making, ban-this-book rubbish that so often takes center stage. Children (and adults) have found something they love that requires no keyboard to access--only imagination and an open mind. As a teacher, I relish discovering a book that students are eager to finish and reread. When students hustle into the classroom and want to share and discuss parts of a book they have read, that's truly magic. DANIEL WALTERS West Seneca...
Gelbart usually rises early and heads straight for his keyboard. But every Tuesday afternoon at 2, he has a standing date with his grandson Adam, 6. Occasionally he will meet a friend for lunch--usually at a sushi bar where, he says, "a waiter can't come up and spoil a punch line"--but concedes, "I don't have much of a social life. As you get older, God takes away your peers and gives you playmates...
...Tanya cooked dinner. By this spring, however, the seventh-grader had ditched the uniform--"Wearing the same color every day wasn't doing it for me anymore"--was earning mostly Ds and had been suspended twice for fighting. The principal eventually taped Tanya's phone number under her computer keyboard because they talked so often. Tanya says her daughter was targeted by a rough group of girls and suffered beatings, teasing and having a juice carton full of urine tossed at her. "I fear for her life in that school," the worried mother says...
This is, of course, nuts, and at some level Paul knows that, but he gets to work anyway, making flash cards and constructing an oversize keyboard so Lorelei can type with her nose. Meanwhile Parkhurst intersperses Paul's quixotic efforts with his recollections (addressed to the reader in a chatty second person) of his romance with the moody, volatile Lexy and an intermittently engaging subplot about a secret cabal of researchers bent on endowing dogs with the power of speech using Gothically gruesome surgical techniques. This is totally implausible, but it helps reduce the novel's Q factor a little...