Word: scans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scan, EKG, DNA analysis, heart transplants, lung transplants, heart-lung transplants. The list of medical miracles stretches longer each month...
With a furtive eye on the clock, I scan through my mail index quickly, so as not to be more than ten minutes late to my next class. Amid the usual assortment of friendly "letters" I notice an unfamiliar name, a certain Debbie Mayer from the University of Wisconsin. After a brief description of her life, she asks, "Write back if you want to. It would be cool to have an e-mail...
Three days later, when the FBI completed a more detailed composite sketch of the suspect, French had two graphics experts scan the drawing and a photo of Polly into a computer. By then, Magid had contacted several computer networks, among them Internet, which has a worldwide clientele of 20 million users. Those services quickly transmitted the images to 250 computer bulletin boards. "This is like a good virus: it proliferated," says Magid...
...that definition? Those who can sign a credit-card receipt but are incapable of writing a letter when they think their bill is wrong; those who can pay the correct change at the supermarket but have difficulty calculating the difference between regular and sale prices; those who can scan a newspaper story but cannot paraphrase its contents...
...price of an America Online subscription ($9.95 a month plus $3.50 an hour after the first five hours each month; phone 1-800-827-6364, extension 7758), computer users will receive the text of each new issue by 4 p.m. Sunday. Readers can browse through the magazine or scan back issues starting with the one published two weeks...