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...postcard and -- poof! -- you are ready to write E-mail. Drop it in the Out box and -- presto! -- it's as good as sent. Check stock quotes, send faxes, review your phone messages. With this book-size device, Sony has quietly done what Apple's Newton conspicuously failed to do: made a "personal digital assistant" that pleases its boss. The whizzy interface, ironically, was built by folks from the original Macintosh design team...
Taking mid-terms, they have concluded, is the same process as casting a spell in Dungeons and Dragons: you memorize a lot of arcane nonsense, and once you use it--POOF!--it's gone...
...Year's Day -- poof! The European Community's single market took effect, freeing the movement of goods among all 12 countries. Across Western Europe, an estimated 63,000 customs workers found themselves looking for new jobs. As Retegui walked glumly through Irun's deserted halls, only a single clerk was at work, clearing a salmon shipment from Sweden, a non-E.C. country. In the distance, tractor trailers thundered down the highway, barely slowing as they approached the crossing. "Who could believe we would be working flat out through December," said union official Ricardo Urtizberea, "and then suddenly find ourselves...
...Poof! The beloved is old and gray...
...That is an insult to centuries of creative barbarians, who have administered capital punishment by boiling in oil, burning at the stake, flaying to death, crushing, impaling, drowning, crucifying, drawing and quartering, disemboweling, gibbeting, garroting, throwing to lions and much, much worse. Cyanide, by comparison, is a sweet pink poof of cessation. Would last week's witnesses have been happier if California had used a neat bullet to the base of the brain (the method the Chinese authorities favor now)? Or if the state had injected Harris with a lethal shot of cocaine so that he would depart...