Word: pages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...user's profile--the server data that determines what information a specific user will have on their page--will be based on a combination of information from the registrar, and preferences given by the user. Steen said that the service will respect privacy by not monitoring behavior, even to assist in gathering preferences...
...brother's cut-rate encyclopedia, suspiciously slim volumes that I would ransack for sixth-grade book report roughage, featured an innovative learning tool under the entry on the Human Body: seven consecutive pages of transparencies, each devoted to a different organic system. Page 1's skin'n'hair'n'nails fit neatly over Page 2's spindly circulation road map which in turn lay on Page 3's inexplicably adipose-yellow GI tracts or Halloween skeleton man, and so on. At a glance, you saw and saw through man instantly, as through, yes, X-ray specs, a three-dimensional simultaneity...
...first page of his Antimemoirs, Andre Malraux tells how in a clear night he met a Catholic priest with whom he had fled months before from the German invasion of France and who at the time was busy handing out false certificates of baptism to persecuted Jews. Malraux asked him if confession had taught him anything and the priest replied that only very little, just that people are much unhappier that one thinks, and that, in the end, what happens is "qu'il n'y a pas de grandes personnes" (that there are no great persons, or, as one translator...
There's a minor fashion craze catching on in Boston. It's nothing too expensive--just a $20 T-shirt, in fact. But you can't buy them in the store--they're only available at select locations on the sidewalks of Kenmore Square. Flip to the sports page right now. If the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees in Game Five of the American League Championship Series last night, the shirts are still available. If not, well--wait until next year...
...believe in student government. I believe students deserve a voice on this campus. I believe we have a stake in shaping our education. And I believe that the Undergraduate Council, despite all its ills, despite calls for its dismemberment on this very page (Opinion, Oct. 12), remains the forum for this discussion...