Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answer without hesitation: getting high-speed access to the Internet at home. It happened two weeks ago, and I'm still faint with excitement. I feel like getting bumper stickers printed up: ASK ME ABOUT MY CABLE MODEM! For months, years even, I've been stalking my local phone and cable monopolies, only to be told that broadband access to the Net wasn't yet available on my block. The phone company's offering, known as DSL, isn't even on the horizon where I live on Long Island, N.Y. It was my cable monopoly, Cablevision, that finally...
...dispatcher listening on the open phone line could hear Harris and Klebold laughing as their victims screamed. When Harris found Cassie Bernall, he leaned down. "Peekaboo," he said, and killed her. His shotgun kicked, stunning him and breaking his nose. Blood streamed down his face as he turned to see Brea Pasquale sitting on the floor because she couldn't fit under a table. "Do you want to die today?" he asked her. "No," she quivered. Just then Klebold called to him, which spared her life...
...know how, I don't know when." Her last diary entry, written 20 minutes before she died, was a drawing of a pair of eyes crying; from the eyes fell 13 drops onto a rose--images Darrell says had been described to him in an earlier phone call from a man he did not know...
...first time I received an e-mail. Trust me on this: once you get high-speed access to the Net and it's at your disposal all the time, you'll understand what all the hoopla is about. It's faster than my connection at work. My two phone lines, which were always tied up with modem traffic, are now always free. My daughters can connect to AOL without ever hearing a busy signal. And my wife can buy things on eBay fast, without having to wait through endless page reloads. So not all of it is good news. Still...
...Gleick. Those who wonder why they never seem to have the leisure to sit back and smell the roses will find plenty of reasons in this lively, irreverent primer on contemporary life. Gleick examines how we became infected with "hurry sickness" and points out that such innovations as cell phones, microwave ovens and the Internet only exacerbate the symptoms. Once a task has been speeded up, going back is hard to do. Try dialing a phone number...