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What will tomorrow bring? Despite the overblown expectations of home computer makers, who predicted that Americans would by this time be ordering their groceries and setting their thermostats by computer, futurists are now envisioning a brave new world of one-stop networking. Commuters will set burglar alarms, start air conditioners and program their VCRs--all through the digital keypads of their mobile phones. When appliances break down, homeowners will plug them into diagnosis outlets, dial the manufacturers and be told in a flash precisely what has gone wrong. Television sets will interrupt broadcasts to announce that clothes dryers have completed...
...Overblown press stories and Rifkin's rhetoric about the two cases have raised the specter of re-engineered microbes escaping into the environment with dire consequences. But most scientists are convinced that neither the Biologics viral vaccine nor the A.G.S. bacteria pose any threat to man, beast or plant...
...about equal numbers in Central Africa, where the disease appears to have originated, while in the U.S. only about 7% of the 13,000 victims identified so far have been women. There are theories but no proof. Nonetheless, a review of the facts establishes that public fears are vastly overblown. The ways in which AIDS is known to have been transmitted...
...going to write a diatribe claiming that their overreaction to my stories is just an extreme example of the attitude I accused them of in the first place--an overblown chauvinism for their rather modest hometown--er, city I wanted to point out that when people publicly attack the place where I grew up, my city doesn't get up in arms about the incident. We, I planned to write, know we have a great community and therefore we aren't hypersensitive to criticism...
...piece's unique claim to be the American national opera is partly responsible, of course, as is the curiosity value associated with any first. But the Met delivers the goods: in the hands of a major conductor like James Levine, Porgy and Bess emerges as something ; richer than the overblown musical comedy it once appeared to be. Although many singers have used Porgy as a springboard to fame (Leontyne Price, for example, in 1952), the Met production reveals it as essentially a choral opera. It is in choruses like Gone, Gone, Gone and Headin' for the Promise...