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Steptoe, who witnessed many of these changes before his death at 74, in 1988, was an unlikely revolutionary. Born to a church organist father and social-service worker mother in rural Oxfordshire, he decided at an early age to pursue medicine over music. During World War II, he was captured...
Wrong. Nothing, especially in the world of computing, is ever that simple. "It was the fault of everybody, just everybody," says Robert Bemer, the onetime IBM whiz kid who wrote much of COBOL. "If Grace Hopper and I were at fault, it was for making the language so easy that...
In an essay on Mohandas Gandhi, George Orwell declared that saints must be presumed guilty until proved innocent. The earthly life of Thomas More, saint though he be, makes such presumption easy. More was a consummate political insider, upwardly mobile in a Machiavellian age and seemingly indispensable at the volatile...
Indeed, in decades and centuries past, as newfangled privacy made personal and professional transgressions more feasible, a compensating deterrent was the sense that somewhere out there, your footsteps were recorded and any misstep could come back to haunt you. Now, through the magic of technology, agnostics can share this angst...
If the thought of getting laid up in a hospital in Karachi makes you feel queasy, MedJet Assistance may be just the cure. In the unlikely event you're involved in a serious accident while traveling either at home or abroad, this newfangled Birmingham, Ala., "membership program" ($150 to $225...