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...going down. That's stagflation, which we saw in the '70s, and it really ties the Fed's hands in terms of what it can do. It's way too early to sound the alarm on that just yet. But for the markets, it's on their radar screen...
...mobile phones, as well. "What we have to realize is that it is easier to steal intellectual property than it is to get legal access to it," Schmidt says. A big hurdle facing content providers like Bertelsmann is a lack of industry-wide standards for encoding music files to screen out unauthorized users...
...some unmystical corporations are itching to acquire. For much of the story, Abe wanders through Prague-23, a virtual "city" in cyberspace where visitors indulge in fantasy encounters and virtual sex, which can get fairly graphic. The reader wanders too, because most of Grammatron's 1,000-plus text screens contain several passages in hypertext. To reach the next screen, just double-click. But each of those hypertexts is a trapdoor that can plunge you down a different pathway of the story. Choose one and you drop into a corporate-strategy memo. Choose another and there's a XXX-rated...
Best is Soarin' over California. You sit in a chair that, when the lights go down, moves up and forward to put you inside a curved IMAX screen. The effect is of flying in a magic-carpet hang glider, gazing down at rivers, farms, skiers, hot-air balloonists, the coast and the desert, San Francisco Bay and, of course, Disneyland. As you pass over an orange grove, the scent of the fruit tickles your nostrils. You fly over a golf course and--whack!--a ball sails toward and past you. In this vertiginous, multisensory California tour, state...
...need for meeting and office space for student groups remains. Lewis has long noted the frustrating shortfall in student group space but unfortunately has not echoed undergraduates' calls for a student center. Such a center would be more than the "gathering place with soft couches, pizzas and big screen TVs" that Lewis dismisses; by bringing student groups together rather than dispersing them among the Houses, it would help build the kind of community that Harvard has consistently sought after randomization...