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...just read e-mail attachments on the PC? Paper is easier on the eyes than a computer monitor. That may change as technologies like ClearType render electronic text easier to read. But for now, says Sellen, "the office we are moving toward is not an office that uses less paper, it's an office that keeps less paper--one where paper is a temporary resource...
...will need in order to enjoy Bedroom. Once the lovers disappear, it settles into a film of silent accusations and deflected anguish. But that watchful waiting has a curiously instructive, ultimately hypnotic effect; this, one thinks, is really the way middle-class America hides its hurts. And those silences render more powerful the explosive confrontation between the grieving parents, in which a lifetime's evasions are blown away. They also make the movie's violent conclusion all the more startling, yet utterly right...
...bear on the Vietnamese--from napalm to the B-52s--couldn't win their hearts and minds. In our present war, we will rely more than ever on technology: the clever missiles that target a terrorist leader; the vaccines that protect against biological weapons; the lines of code that render a computer impervious to cyberterrorists. As the public debates whether it's safe to fly again, high-tech innovations promise to do everything from positively identifying passengers at the gate to automatically returning hijacked planes safely to earth...
...priorities on the part of the administration. The order, which provides for the trial of non-citizens suspected of terrorism by military tribunal rather than in a court of law before a jury of their peers, strikes at the very foundation of the American legal system. Its ramifications could render illegitimate the coming decade’s most important exercises of justice and would blacken the reputation of the United States as a nation governed...
These tribunals—which even Bush administration officials admitted would limit the rights of defendants more than standing military courts—would have the authority to render verdicts, up to and including death with a two-thirds vote of officers present...