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Sooner or later we all discover that our arms just aren't long enough to read anymore. You know the problem. You can't focus on the small type in books and magazines and on aspirin bottles at your normal reading distance, and so you start moving the print farther and farther away. If you haven't already experienced this trombone effect, don't worry, you will. Starting around age 40, the lenses in most people's eyes start to weaken. You begin to lose the ability to focus on things close up and have to resort to bifocals...
...bottom line. But with just two employees, Register couldn't afford to pull them from their day-to-day jobs to spend time calling carriers, requesting quotes and handling negotiations. "Phone service is one of the worst things to shop for," he says. "You have to read the fine print on everything...
...than we are. By midafternoon on Election Day, journalists receive exit-poll data, diced into a zillion demographic categories on whom people voted for and why. Networks use those figures to call states seconds after the polls close (and hint not so subtly at outcomes earlier in the day); print journalists use it to plan election coverage; we all use it to lord our insiderdom over less-well-connected pals. The monopolistic source of the data is the Voter News Service, an exit-polling and vote-counting consortium of the major TV networks plus the Associated Press. (TIME, like many...
...RECORD Secretaries who take dictation may have gone the way of three-piece suits and two-martini lunches, but Sony's new digital voice-to-print recorder ($300 including software) fills the gap. The MS1 records up to 131 minutes of brilliant ideas. Instead of a cassette, it uses a tiny memory card. Pop it into your PC (with an adapter), and the software transcribes your words into a text file. You can even highlight the transcribed text and listen for errors. They're working on the martinis...
...those waters are roiling: As the word spread over the weekend that as many as 1,500 overseas votes (many of them military, and many presumably meant for George W. Bush) had been discarded due to bureaucratic fine print, protests erupted around the country. The outrage was fueled on two fronts. First, the procedural question: How, many dissidents demanded, could Florida Democrats demand such unerring precision from military personnel while simultaneously insisting they could infer the "intent" of a largely Democratic constituency just by staring intently at "pregnant" chads? Second, a sense of enraged patriotism: Congressional Republicans were...