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Sound like magic? It might, if you have never seen a laptop or pen-based computer, received an electronic-mail message, sent a fax or carried a cellular phone. But as any well-equipped information worker can testify, these devices have been getting smaller, cheaper and more ubiquitous. Why couldn't they all be squeezed into a single, all-purpose package -- a kind of pocket- size portable office -- that would let brokers buy and sell from a restaurant table, lawyers check precedents from a courtroom, doctors check lab results from a golf course, and salesmen close deals from a trout...
...Monday May 21st, the day of my Shakespeare exam, I think I'll just keep hitting the snooze button, or just not set my alarm at all, sleep as late as I want, study at my leisure. On the 26th, I'll show up at Marge's door, pen and blue book in hand, and proclaim in earnest intent, "Miserable Belated Examination...
...hearings on public education in all 75 Arkansas counties. She spent long evenings drinking stale coffee in overheated cafeterias while participants trooped to the microphone to offer their views and occasional insults (she was once called "lower than a snake's belly"). Known to click a ball-point pen if someone was belaboring the obvious, she sometimes resorted to setting a timer at five minutes to keep the meetings moving. As the deadline approached, Mrs. Clinton drove the meetings from 6 p.m. Friday until late Sunday afternoon. When she presented the findings to a special session of the state legislature...
...magazine that inspired it are the product of a group of brainy (if eccentric) visionaries holed up in a rambling Victorian mansion perched on a hillside in Berkeley, California. The MTV-style graphics are supplied by designer Bart Nagel, the overcaffeinated prose by Ken Goffman (writing under the pen name R.U. Sirius) and Alison Kennedy (listed on the masthead as Queen Mu, "domineditrix"), with help from Rudy Rucker and a small staff of free-lancers and contributions from an international cast of cyberpunk enthusiasts. The goal is to inspire and instruct but not to lead. "We don't want...
Aides have prepared a thick book of orders Clinton could put into effect with a stroke of the presidential pen. Some samples of their diversity: three would overturn bans on homosexuals in military service, discussion of abortion in % federally aided family-planning clinics, and admission into the U.S. of foreigners with the AIDS virus; another would cut the size of the White House staff; still another would require federal vehicles to run on natural gas or other nongasoline fuels. But should Clinton start pouring them out right away or wait until he has drafted, say, a budget and a health...