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...name to add to its honor roll of former guests, which includes Bill Clinton, Jack Kemp, Ann Richards, Nobel Winner Rigoberta Menchu and yes, even Newt Gingrich Now they can pencil in Barbra Streisand. Unfortunately, she's rain on the IOP's parade of consistent cutting-edge political relevance...
...still adheres to the latest version of Windows, Bob ties together all the uses most people will have for their home computer into cartoon-like images of a living room, kitchen or den. Many of the objects on the desks and shelves do things. Click on the paper and pencil, for example, to launch a word-processing program. Click on the calendar to bring up your daily appointment book. Click on a checkbook to see where your money has gone. When you get stuck, cutesy characters with attitude help you out with grunts and gestures and little bits of printed...
Grandfather's Pencil, written and illustrated by Michael Foreman (Harcourt Brace; $14.95), is a dreamy tale of an English boy who finds a magical pencil lost by his grandfather, an old sailor. The boy sleeps. Moonlight floods his window. The pencil writes by itself, remembering its early life as part of a great tree. The paper it writes on remembers being logs in a wild river. The room's floorboards were part of a ship that flew a black flag. The grandfather was a boy; the boy will grow older. Fine drawings whisper the twin secrets of storytelling: long...
With the obsolescence of the No.2 pencil, one of this nation's major industries will certainly collapse. Graphite production will disappear except for the minuscule amounts needed for lock lubricants. Lumber yards will fall silent as thousands of glistening yellow and blue No.2 pencils with their red rubber erasers sit idly on stationers' shelves...
There's only one help for the pencil trade. We must conceal this advancement in mechanical tabulation from developing nations that still rely heavily on No.2 pencils! We'll keep them in the dark ages until some industrial spy manages to squeeze the secret out of a less-than-scrupulous CUE Guide worker. By that time, we'll have switched all those pencil-producers over to defense contracting...