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That overstates the case, but there's something to what Levy says. The crux of his argument is that the Mac moved computer users into the realm of metaphor. By making the internal workings of a machine as cozy as a living room, the Macintosh allowed people to feel at ease in cyberspace, that "ephemeral territory perched on the lip of math and firmament," as Levy describes it, or, more simply, "the place where my information lives...
...views on campus issues were generally in synch with Crimson staff tradition. Usually, they were. But over the course of the year, every once in awhile, some would accuse me of "hurting the community" with staff editorials that went, at least according to my accuser, beyond the "acceptable" realm of staff policy...
With the White House awash in Whitewater, Clinton reveled in his chance to conquer new worlds, to prove that a self-described "domestic" President could hold his own in the complex realm of international politics. He brought his genial man-of-the-people act to the streets of Brussels, Prague, Moscow and Minsk, even as he tackled economic and security issues from Russia to Bosnia with wonkish concentration. Boasting of breakthroughs on Ukrainian nuclear arms and the detargeting of Russian missiles, Clinton proclaimed his trip a success. Said a senior official traveling with the President: "We absolutely did everything...
That obsession is gene therapy, and W. French Anderson, 57, more than anyone else, has brought it from the realm of science fiction to reality. It was Anderson who campaigned single-mindedly for the first approved test of the technology in 1990, who organized and supervised the trial, and who last year was able to announce that the subjects of the experiment, two young girls with a debilitating disorder called ADA deficiency, had been relieved of virtually all symptoms of the disease...
...DEBATE IN THE CHURCHES. So much lively spiritual activity might come as a welcome sign to mainline churches, whose memberships have dwindled over the years. Some see the movement among conservative Christians as a backlash against secular society. "Angels are reassurance that the supernatural and the realm of God are real," says Richard Woods, a Dominican priest and an author of books on angels and demons. "They are a reaffirmation of the traditional vision of a Christian world when that vision is under attack." Retired rabbi Morris Margolies, author of an upcoming book on angels in Judaism agrees...