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...doubting that you saw this "insecure exhibitionism," even though I did not; after all, losing three straight Games can mess with your head...
What will Bush do to keep the lights on? He doesn't have a lot of options. Last week he ruled out new federal controls on wholesale electricity prices, which Governor Gray Davis had proposed as a way out of the mess. Bush also nixed the idea of bailing out the state's nearly bankrupt utilities. The Los Angeles Times compared his position with President Gerald Ford's 1975 refusal to rescue New York City from fiscal default, "a decision memorialized," the Times noted dryly, "by the tabloid headline: FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD...
...twins at the center of the raging international custody battle were quickly christened the "Internet Babies"--as if they were actually birthed by that great mother of modernity, the Net. But as tempting as it is to blame technology for the mess, it just...
Marginalia create the presence of more than one voice at a time SEE COMPUTER MESSAGES, and this cacophony simulates the ways our minds work. The difference between thought and speech--the inchoate mess in our minds as opposed to the crispy words that emerge--suggests that we live with a number of voices at once. SPOOKY! If we really wanted to get spooky about it, we might wonder how to tell the texts of our lives from the margins. [Give it a rest...
...CALL HOME If the electrical interference from cell phones is powerful enough to mess up navigation systems on jets, what does it do to those gizmos in a hospital room? Generally not much, finds a study that tested cell phones against a host of monitors, pumps and other devices. But when a phone was held 2 in. from a mechanical ventilator, the machine shut down and restarted on its own. That's enough, say researchers, to strongly consider banning cell phones in hospital suites...