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...book, immodestly titled How the Mind Works (Norton; $29.95), Pinker suggests an intriguing if highly controversial answer. The mind, he says, is like an ancient, jerry-built computer program made up of dozens of specialized "modules," each honed by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years of evolution. There are modules for stereo vision and manual dexterity, for understanding numbers and grammatical speech, for sexual jealousy and romantic love. Don't think of them as "detachable, snap-in components," he cautions. They're not visible to the naked eye "like the rump steak on the supermarket cow display...
Instead, they recommend using a utility such as Norton Utilities or Rescue to retrieve your file. Norton Utilities is on all lab Macs...
...federal takeover has roiled the city's always testy political waters, inspiring loud public protests. So loud that Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's nonvoting representative in Congress, did an about-face: after first calling the deal a "big win," she denounced it as "too high a price." Meanwhile, Barry--whose popularity is so low that nearly 80% of residents say it's time for him to go--is using the setback to his advantage. "Democracy has been raped," he asserts, decrying the white Republicans in Congress--particularly North Carolina Senator Lauch Faircloth--who spearheaded the takeover. Says a congressional...
...most striking, and frightening, is Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm (Norton; 227 pages; $23.95). The somewhat peculiar title refers to the disastrous confluence of a large hurricane and a muscular nor'easter in the fishing grounds off New England and Newfoundland in 1991. The Andrea Gail, a 72-ft. offshore commercial swordfish boat, sank with its crew of six men in the monstrous confusion of air and water that resulted. A small sailboat, the Satori, also sank, though its crew was saved, and so did a powerful rescue helicopter that ran out of fuel, ditched and lost one crewman...
...head to head with Stanford, that would be really tough," says Eddie Norton, director of foundational relations at Santa Clara University...