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Unfortunately, the sorry trend of commercial exploitation of Sept. 11 does not end with the car manufacturers. AT&T now runs a somber advertisement where 20-odd pale blue place names flash up on a white screen, starting with the sites of the three plane crashes and ending up around the world. The slogan “the power to unite is greater than the power to divide” fades away into the AT&T logo. Consumers are clearly supposed to heed the implied message—because Sept. 11 demonstrated the importance of tolerance and multi-culturalism, everyone...
High school students can log on to private Internet chat rooms for each subject and ask questions of the tutors, who are mostly Harvard undergraduates. Tutors can type answers or draw on a board that appears at the bottom of the chat screen to illustrate graphs or equations for math and science questions...
...future, when the panacea for venereal disease is finally discovered, a new form of highly contagious and often unexpungeable affliction will excite the public’s fear: the download. Symptoms: icon blemishes, commonly found in the bottom right corner of the screen; a geologically protracted start-up delay; and the PC deathknell, “Fatal error has occurred. You will lose any unsaved information because you just had to download that pirated Backgammon software. Nice going, chump...
...character into a corner on each maze-like level. Though I am frantically pushing all the little buttons, I manage to keep him on his knees in a prostrate state of anguish, writhing like an epileptic chicken, while those more skilled than I laugh because the constantly moving screen really does give me a headache. Bastards...
...officials said they are working closely with Mount Auburn Hospital, the Cambridge City Health Department and MIT Health Services to increase clinicians’ ability to screen for abnormal flu-like cases...