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...with a new code. And those who use the electronic-purse system usually keep only two-figure sums of money in them. "It's not like you're gonna buy a 1948 roadster with a $99 account," says Jim Forbes, an analyst for consulting firm IDG, based in San Mateo, Calif...
DIED. MORTIMER ADLER, 98, philosopher, educational reformer and author who helped create the Great Books program of learning; in San Mateo, Calif. Guided by the writings of his personal hero, Aristotle, Adler spent most of his life championing his belief in universal values, insisting that all students ought to receive a liberal-arts education with an understanding of that philosophy. He helped revise the core curriculum at the University of Chicago accordingly, and conceived the Great Books program, which is based on 443 classics reprinted in a 54-volume set by Encyclopaedia Britannica. His works include How to Read...
...Maverick philosopher and prolific writer Mortimer Adler, died last week in San Mateo, California. When his Great Books of the Western World was first published, TIME wrote a cover story on Adler, calling him "one of the best minds at large today." An excerpt...
...they may drink more per capita than almost anyone else, but advertising any image of alcohol is heavily restricted. And the French ad police don't care if you're hawking something as sobering as customer-relationship-management software. The U.S. software firm Blue Martini, based in San Mateo, Calif., was hoping to run print ads in France featuring its signature azure cocktail and a tag line that read, "This martini won't go to your head." But, after reviewing the tough 1991 ad law, the company's lawyers put their campaign back in the bottle...
...will take, some predict, is that first snapshot. "Once you have a picture of a normal baby with 10 fingers and 10 toes, that changes everything," says San Mateo, California, attorney and cloning advocate Mark Eibert, who gets inquiries from infertile couples every day. "Once they put a child in front of the cameras, they've won." On the other hand, notes Gregory Pence, a professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and author of Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?, "if the first baby is defective, cloning will be banned for the next 100 years...