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...Industrial Revolution transformed the end of the last one. Today, millions of transistors, each costing far less than a staple, can be etched on wafers of silicon. On these microchips, all the world's information and entertainment can be stored in digital form, processed and zapped to every nook of a networked planet. And in 1997, as the U.S. completed nearly seven years of growth, the microchip has become the dynamo of a new economy marked by low unemployment, negligible inflation and a rationally exuberant stock market...
...official. Boasting soporific couches, opulent classrooms and a well-placed coffee nook, the Barker Center is a success. A crafty architect and an $11 billion endowment has moved us into the 21st century without destroying our cultural integrity...
...into inventing the aqualung, building the first manned undersea colonies, and floating for more than 40 years over the sea floor in The Calypso, a refitted mine-sweeper from which Cousteau shot the first color footage of life in the deep. For the wiry, red-capped Frenchman, exploring every nook and cranny of every ocean on the globe for such hugely popular television series as "The Underwater World of Jacques Cousteau" came as easily as love at first sight. "When you dive, you begin to feel that you're an angel," he explained in a recent interview...
Celery, sweet potatoes and peanut sauce are not often found in sandwiches--let alone the same sandwich. But at this nook on Mt. Auburn, don't expect the ordinary. For about five dollars you can pick from a wide variety of wrap-style sandwiches; the cafe also makes a variety of natural shakes and smoothies for those with a sweet-tooth. While you're waiting for your order, sample some sounds at the free music kiosk that lines the wall...
...retired in 1989 [when the mandatory retirement law was in effect], but I would not have kept on teaching. The dean set up a nice situation...he built us a new building where we have own nook, our own secretaries and a place we can keep our books and can give a lecture," says Straus Professor of Business of History Emeritus Alfred D. Chandler Jr. "He did that very much on purpose--before we had a place known, as death row where you shared an office with three or so others after you retired...