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...quiet lines into the building covered with vines, and of course, my daughter loves it there. Like most other kids, she is fond of order and rules and schedules. It's just like my old Sunnyvale School, a quiet pond of books and pen and paper. But a parent stands on a precipice. Adolescence looms ahead, which nowadays can begin at around the age of 8. Drug dealers lurk in the alley; nihilist rock 'n' roll wafts up from the storm sewer; the culture of covetousness is everywhere...
...optimism to bring a child into the world. Of course, lust enters into it too, and ignorance and sometimes mixed drinks, but a parent is, ex officio, a believer in the fundamental goodness of life. In a world of superstition, cruelty and despair, there is also friendship, fresh sweet corn, theater, the North Shore of Lake Superior, so many delightful things that tip the balance. Is this not so? The parent prays that it is so. I hear my daughter in the yard, laughing. She is on a swing, swinging so high that her head hits the leaves...
...telcos aren't going to ignore an emerging technology twice. They're launching their own services as they try to reach out and crush Vonage before it gains too much momentum. And there's added pressure because cable companies such as Time Warner Cable (owned by the same parent company as TIME) and Comcast are also in the game. With the heavyweights now in the ring, broadband phone service will be making its way into close to 5 million homes within two years, according to Forrester Research. Experts have been saying for years that broadband was the future of landline...
...then in June, Apple launched iTunes in Britain, France and Germany, offering a wider selection of songs for less money ($1.44 each). In its first week in Europe alone, iTunes sold 800,000 tracks. Napster and the Sony Connect store also have competing music sites, and WalMart and EasyGroup, parent company of EasyJet, are looking to launch their music-download services. Coke execs are debuting their site in Austria and promoting it heavily on the sides of cans, but they must be wishing for the days when Pepsi was all they had to worry about. --By Chris Taylor...
...terms, click on the ?lucky? button and, voila, land on precisely the web page that they always wanted but could never find. When Sergey Brin and Larry Page created Google, this was their way of showing us just how good they could be - like two kids bouncing into their parent?s den to show off a new magic trick...