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...could beam up taped lectures by any professor on campus or even let students monitor courses from other schools. Built-in computer terminals, similar to ones in place at Dartmouth, could tap into the card catalogs of half the college libraries in the country, call up encyclopedia articles or scan the daily papers. A glance at the quad outside would show groups of teens in whatever uniform eventually supplants T shirts and blue jeans, but also many older students taking courses to change careers, and even retired couples returning to campus to satisfy their curiosity about everything from art history...
Those Washington spoon-bending parties are regularly attended by top brass from the Pentagon. The German government paid DM 400,000 (about $250,000) in 1990 to hire dowsers to scan federal offices and hospitals so that desks and beds could be relocated out of the path of the deadly E rays that authorities have accepted as real. Our own Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, has urged government funding for supernatural research, fearful that Russian scientists might be ahead of the U.S. in paranormal matters. Until recently, Pell retained a special assistant...
...made it clear that he is worried about how the House bank scan...
Mike Ness is the master of the Angry Loser song. Just scan the titles--"Cold Feelings," "Bad Luck," "Bye Bye Baby," and "Born to Lose." In the latter, he sings "I was brought in this world in 1962/I didn't have much choice you see/But by the time I was eight, I could tell it was too late, I was already barking up the wrong tree...
...company in less than two weeks whether it has just hired a Hillside Strangler (who, incidentally, worked for several private security firms after he had been rejected by some police departments). In Alaska and Oklahoma it can take six months for the same information. In states that do not scan the FBI's national data bank, such as New York, it is impossible to know whether a guard applicant committed a crime elsewhere...