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...test run is going very well. I corner some unsuspecting souls and ask them for their impressions of me. One or two people say I'm freaking them out - apparently not much has changed since my high-school days. But when I have explained what the MA-IV is and can do, most folks pronounce it cool. Would they consider buying one? Um, maybe. (See the interviews on our website...
Before coming to the mall, I tried out the MA-IV at the Xybernaut headquarters. I surfed the Web, first checking out some Star Trek sites (it seemed the appropriate thing to do), then the soccer scores and my e-mail. I considered playing an online computer game, but then remembered that I'm lousy at those. So I sent a how-are-you message to my boss in Hong Kong. For the first 10 minutes I fumbled with the tiny keyboard and trackball. But soon I was able to write entire sentences with relative ease - about 10 words...
...this point, you're asking: What's the catch? Actually there are a couple. Problem No. 1 is that the MA-IV is no featherweight. All told, I'm carrying nearly 2 kg of paraphernalia on me: the heaviest bits are the CPU (900 g) and the lithium-ion battery pack (450 g). Being, ahem, somewhat heavyset myself, I scarcely feel the extra weight at first; but after 30 minutes my neck and shoulders are strained from wearing the 400-g headset. With time, practice and some gym work, I could probably get used to the load. Luckily...
...Broadway, French dramatists were all the rage: the plays of Jean Giraudoux and Samuel Beckett had good runs, as did the musicals "La Plume de ma tante" and "Irma la douce"; the young Hepburn entranced New York audiences as Colette's Gigi and Jean Anouilh's Ondine. Novels from Germany, Italy, Japan - pretty much any nation the Allies had conquered - were must reading for the intelligentsia. Jean-Paul Sartre was so famous he was parodied in Hepburn's Paris frolic "Funny Face...
...LOOK, MA, CAVITIES! Thought you had heard every reason to quit smoking? Here's a new one: to protect your kids' teeth. It turns out that secondhand smoke can nearly double the risk that kids ages 4 through 11 will develop cavities. What's the connection? A by-product of nicotine called cotinine, once thought to kill off the bacteria linked to cavities, actually does the opposite, encouraging tooth-destroying bugs to grow and multiply...