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...voice for hire. On behalf of an interest group, Bonner and Associates can spew 10,000 faxes a night. But Bonner is better known for applying a more personal touch. When he works on a piece of legislation, he first isolates the likely swing votes, then has his software scan a database of the corresponding congressional districts, seeking residents whose profiles suggest sympathy with his cause. When influence is in order -- after, say, a sudden and threatening development at a committee hearing -- his people call these sympathizers, describe the looming peril and offer to "patch" them directly through...
Although not the only one, Descartes was a major inspiration for the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment. Truth became a matter not of doctrine or received traditions but of something materially present on earth, accessible either through research or sound reasoning. "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan," Alexander Pope wrote in 1733-34. "The proper study of Mankind...
...prevented that and other terrorist bombings. The $8 million move -- first disclosed last week in TIME Daily -- means that U.S. airports with international service will install it this year, with a FAA verdict on additional sites to follow by early 1996. The detectors, which use X-rays and CAT scan-like technology to scan passenger luggage, is now in use at Brussels and London airports...
...Recently, for my thesis, I needed to find a book, The History of the Kings of Britain, in electronic form so I could scan for specific words, and I used the Web looking for that," she says...
...tired sameness and poor turnout return year after year. Read those position papers, once again promising cable in your dorm and longer library hours! Scan those beaming faces in The Crimson, all looking to capture your vote...