Word: pens
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There's a new president in office, and millions of Democrats and liberals are watching him eagerly. Watching as, with a stroke of a pen, he signs the long-suffering Family Leave Bill. Watching as, with a wave of his arm, he lifts the ban on gays in the military or restores rights to abortion counseling in federally funded clinics. President Clinton is clearing out so much of the last 12 years' dirty laundry that you have to wonder what else he could do with so much individual power...
Clinton has not had much of a chance to sign a treaty, but he shouldn't lock away his ceremonial pen; there are plenty of ex-Soviet republics with nuclear weapons. In addition, there will undoubtedly be many economic agreements to be consummated between the U.S., the European Community and emerging Southeast Asian nations. With the situation of the Israeli deportees unresolved, Clinton might even see a replay of Carter's Camp David talks...
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...
...vision will be reinforced in the coming weeks by a series of bulletins from Silicon Valley. EO Inc., which last fall unveiled the first pen-based computer with a built-in cellular phone, will begin shipping finished products sometime this spring. Apple Computer, which has been teasing the press with carefully measured leaks about a pocket-size bundle of wonders called Newton, will belatedly deliver the first models sometime before summer (having missed | a self-imposed deadline last month). And this week a company called General Magic, which has been surrounded with breathless secrecy since it was founded three years...
...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...