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...Behind the locked door lies the New Frontier, a frontier that tickles the nose with "a whiff of history," as another guest put it. The door opens to a quaint sitting room, bedroom, kitchenette and bathroom while books by and about the President overflow the bookshelf and framed photos and newspaper clippings deck the walls. Here, a snapshot of the swimming team; there, JFK attending the Harvard-Columbia football game in 1963; upon the bedroom door, the 1940 University Class Day Program announcing all the swingin' graduation activities. "There's a flavor to it," says Catherine L. McLaughlin, deputy director...
...fight disease. With the latest $448 million the White House has asked Congress to approve for the project, the U.S. government investment in the research since 1993 will rise to $3 billion. Government funding for research motivated only by a desire to serve humanity? That's a rather quaint idea in an age when scientists depend on corporations to fund their research, their breakthroughs jealously patented by companies looking to expand market share. Quaint, but not unwelcome...
When an American Internet merchant like Jeff Bezos joins Charles Lindbergh and Winston Churchill in the pantheon of TIME's Men of the Year, it's all too easy to assume that the economic future belongs exclusively to the U.S. and that Europe will become a quaint museum dependent on tourism and some luxury niches for its livelihood. Too easy--and wrong. While the Old World is still bedeviled by archaic habits and practices, it enjoys a global lead, possibly unsurpassable, in certain sectors that are at the heart of the technological revolution...
...their considerable acting talent. Always enjoyable, though, is the play's soundtrack-a pastiche of love songs spanning the decades. By the end of the last song, you will probably find that Perfect Days has definitely kept you entertained. Just don't expect a radical departure from a familiar, quaint style of entertainment in this theatergoing experience...
...right to be economically unproductive until the day after college graduation--amendment one to the teenage constitution--will seem incredibly quaint if not downright crazy in a few years. Fourteen-year-olds in 1950 were not expected to know how to use metal lathes even if one day they might end up working for General Motors. But nowadays 14 is rather late to get in the cyberharness for a position somewhere down the road at Oracle. This trend will only continue and even speed up as parents and children alike see the advantages in mastering change at an early...