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...Culver, 37, a former history teacher, began with an hour-long PowerPoint presentation on the history of the caucus going back to 1846, a sign-language interpreter flashed signs--even though not a single person in the room was deaf. It hit me about 15 minutes into the speech that the sign-language guy must have realized no one there was deaf, but by that time it was too embarrassing to just stop. So he kept going, his bravery a further testimony to the lengths Iowans go through just to get David Broder to visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: Clive, Iowa: Like Jury Duty? You'll Love Caucuses | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...Culver, 37, a former history teacher, began with an hour-long PowerPoint presentation on the history of the caucus going back to 1846, a sign-language interpreter flashed signs - even though not a single person in the room was deaf. It hit me about 15 minutes into the speech that the sign-language guy must have realized no one there was deaf, but by that time it was too embarrassing to just stop. So he kept going, his bravery a further testimony to the lengths Iowans go through just to get David Broder to visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Jury Duty? You'll Love Caucuses | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...after his attacks on Bill Clinton cost the G.O.P. big losses in the midterm elections, has been steadily increasing his backstage role in national politics. Nowhere was his presence more on display than in the Medicare-reform bill Congress passed last week. Beginning a year ago, Gingrich gave PowerPoint briefings to top Republican officials like Vice President Dick Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate majority leader Bill Frist on market reforms for Medicare. Late in October, Gingrich worked with AARP to circulate a compromise proposal on Capitol Hill, much like the one eventually passed, for Medicare to compete with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reforming Medicare, The Gingrich Way | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

Tired of spending hundreds of dollars upgrading your copies of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel every couple of years? This time around, you probably don't have to. That's because the latest version of Microsoft Office (Professional Edition: $499), which went on sale last week and encompasses 11 individual programs, four varieties of server software and a couple of add-on services, has surprisingly few improvements designed for individuals. It targets the corporate market--teams of office workers sharing documents, accessing corporate databases and filling out electronic forms. If you do most of your computing work on your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Office A La Carte | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...email and catch up without having a ton of homework to do when I get back to school." And kids are picking up computer skills along the way: watching the fifth-graders touch-type would make an executive secretary weep. They're whizzes at video production. They speak PowerPoint like it's their mother tongue--it's how they do their oral reports. The kids at Packer have become one with their computers--and the Net that connects them--in a way that we, the generation that built those computers, will never grasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old School, New Tricks | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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