Word: modelling
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With that in mind, it's still possible to handicap the new players. The phone line networking crowd is clearly ahead of the pack, with more companies backing the technology. Compaq, for one, is selling a Presario desktop PC model already prepped to work with a home phone-line networking system. (See box for information on other products...
...might think a man who has had his company e-mail captured by the government, read aloud in a courtroom and printed around the world would be put off electronic messaging for life. But Gates the author adores the medium. His ideal business model has management inundating its underlings with e-mails in a free-and-easy manner that would give some corporate lawyers a heart attack. "There's no doubt that e-mail flattens the hierarchical structure of an organization," he writes. "It encourages people to speak...
Take the question of chance, for instance, and recall The Killing (1956), the first true Kubrick movie. The elaborate heist of the day's handle at a race track, a model of rational planning, goes perfectly. And then, at the last moment, the sappy lady and her yappy little dog appear--mischance absurdly personified--and ruin everything. Remember 1964's Dr. Strangelove as well. How delicately the title character and his ilk poised the balance of terror, how little they considered the possibility that there might be someone out there like General Jack D. Ripper. Best of all, think...
What kind of role model can the First Lady possibly be? She obviously loves presidential perks far more than she hates the President's perversions. ROGER CHAPIN San Diego...
...treated adequately.? Another important matter is peace of mind. The death option is not one very many terminally ill patients actually intend to exercise. Mostly the choice serves as a palliative, says Gorman, ?by just letting people know there?s another way out.? Which is why the Oregon model is the one that should be studied. Oregon?s doctor-assisted suicide law provides a carefully calibrated decision mechanism ?that is safe, reasonable and ethical,? says Gorman. No one has rushed, or was rushed, to die in the year since the Oregon law went into effect; so far, 15 terminally...