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Whether a technology catches on with consumers depends on social conditions. For Americans, the gateway (no pun intended) to a connected world is the personal computer. PCs make sense for Americans, with their big houses. It's easy to hide that unlovely box of tricks somewhere out of sight--and use it in peace and quiet. But many Europeans and Japanese live in cramped apartments. For them, a PC not only overwhelms the living room, it also offers no privacy. Mobile phones, by contrast, are unobtrusive, as well as being a liberating way (especially for teenagers) to connect with friends...
...track record, no pun intended, has been really terrific as the fellowships tutor," Risinger said. "I expect him to do an excellent job as Senior Tutor...
...fact, this is probably how Bush should have sold his CO2 flip-flop - as a crisis-induced, temporary delay until the skies clear a little (no pun intended) - and it's how a big tax cut can make everybody, from Armey to Bush to Gephardt, look like they're actually reading the financial pages instead of just skimming over the headlines and moving on with their own ideological agenda...
...attracted 1,200 people, including parents, teenagers and even younger children. The aim was to provide something with the feel of a rave party but without the drug scene that goes with it. Then again, the main stage attraction was the band Crystal Method, whose name is an obvious pun on crystal meth, the amphetamine-based party drug. "A band can call itself what it wants to call itself," says Robert Santelli, deputy director of public programs at EMP. Which is true, of course. But the adults who offer the band to kids are inescapably complicit in any message...
Reading his "hip" pun, Bartley laughs...