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...Union Pacific railroad announcing that 2,000 employees will be involuntarily disembarking. It's steelmaker LTV filing for bankruptcy for the second time in 14 years. It's Montgomery Ward announcing that it is ending 128 years of American retailing history by closing its 250 stores and pink-slipping its 37,000 employees...
...think of a privileged little scene earlier in the day in the mahogany-paneled men's locker room of a private club in Boston. Two investment bankers, plump and pink from their game of squash, stand stark naked before the large television set on the wall, tuned to CNBC. They watch the crawl of stock quotations on the screen; their brows darken, and the pink drains from their cheeks...
...High is decked out in the traditional pink dress and golden stole of ancient Rome. She bursts into a third-grade classroom and greets her students: "Salvete, omnes!" (Hello, everyone!) The kids respond in kind, and soon they are studying derivatives. "How many people are in a duet?" High asks. All the kids know the answer, and when she asks how they know, a boy responds, "Because duo is 'two' in Latin." High replies, "Plaudite!" and the 14 kids erupt in applause. They learn the Latin root later, or side, and construct such English words as bilateral and quadrilateral. "Latin...
...resembling Devil's Tower in Wyoming. Everywhere we looked we could see a stunning variety of sandstone canyons and buttes, some visible at more than 30 miles. As the sun descended, the canyon colors changed from burnt red to deep purple, then a mixture of lavender and pink...
Walk into room 922 of the artificial intelligence lab at M.I.T., and you may notice a winsome robot in the corner trying desperately to get your attention. When Kismet is lonely and spots a human, it cranes its head forward plaintively. It flaps its pink paper ears and vocalizes excitedly in a babylike patter. Kismet's handlers call this an "attention-getting display." You would have to have a heart of stone to ignore this cute little aluminum...thing...