Word: offers
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...Clinton Administration officials often tell critics not to carp but to offer alternatives to the policies they disagree with. Clinton himself was saying that last week. In a speech to a convention of union members, he admitted he didn't like to use force but said that he had to do it. Americans would have to decide, he said, whether they agree with him that the nation, as the only superpower, "ought to be standing up against ethnic cleansing." And again in his formal speech from the Oval Office on Wednesday night, he put the humanitarian issue first. Sooner...
...just what does Jennings' televised history lesson bring to the media's growing centennial curriculum? Press material for The Century implies that it aims to tell the world's story over the past 100 years. That is somewhat misleading. What the documentary does, in fact, is offer a smattering of global drama all in the context of a one-man show--sometimes staid, sometimes engaging--starring Uncle Sam, a character free-thinking, dysfunctional, glorified, triumphant...
Hubble's skills as an astronomer were impressive enough to earn him an offer from the prestigious Mount Wilson Observatory. World War I kept him from accepting right away, but in 1919 the newly discharged Major Hubble--as he invariably introduced himself--arrived at observatory headquarters, still in uniform but ready to start observing with the just completed 100-in. Hooker Telescope, the most powerful on earth...
After the war, Turing returned to Cambridge, hoping to pick up the quiet academic life he had intended. But the newly created mathematics division of the British National Physical Laboratory offered him the opportunity to create an actual Turing machine, the ACE or Automatic Computing Engine, and Turing accepted. What he discovered, unfortunately, was that the emergency spirit that had short-circuited so many problems at Bletchley Park during the war had dissipated. Bureaucracy, red tape and interminable delays once again were the order of the day. Finding most of his suggestions dismissed, ignored or overruled, Turing eventually left...
RADIO FREE MICROSOFT The latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer doesn't push Web browsing to any new heights, but it does offer a few bells, whistles and radio knobs. Yes, radio knobs. A new toolbar lets you set up direct links to your favorite Internet radio stations--a trick taken straight from broadcast.com The browser and radio are free (you can download them from www.microsoft.com) And sticking with the business practice that landed the company in court, Microsoft plans to sell a new edition of Windows 98 with IE 5.0 bundled...