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...greatest drawback to audio books, of course, is that they are usually heavily abridged. (Unabridged versions are available for many books, both in stores and through mail order, but they represent a relatively small segment of the market.) Most mass-market audio books are boiled down to a length of three to six hours. Even at a relatively brisk reading pace of a minute-and-a- half per page, that typically means more than half the author's prose is left on the cutting-room floor. Rather than tamper with the author's language, editors make an effort to select...
...popularity of kidware has made it not only the hottest segment of the $6.8 billion software industry but also a driving force behind the rapid growth in hardware sales. There are more than 15 million U.S. homes with both personal computers and school-age children; that figure is expected to double by 1998. "More and more parents see computers as something essential for their children's education," says Jean Cho, a manager of learning programs for software giant Microsoft...
...poor, unemployment and unfulfilled government promises of a better standard of living. The January uprising by peasants in Chiapas, the assassination of the ruling party's presidential candidate in March, a gradual downturn in the economy, and an outburst of drug shootings and kidnappings have convinced a large segment of Mexico's people that their society needs serious repair. Just a month ago, they appeared to resent the failures of the Salinas government so bitterly that many were ready to turn out his Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I...
...segment of the video shows a voter checkinga box in a booth the announcer describes asprivate...
...Brown, but Moore is not venturing into network territory only for the laughs. "I want people to be angry; I want them to get up and do something," he says. This goal sometimes causes TV Nation to veer from satire toward simpleminded didacticism. At the end of a NAFTA segment in which Moore visits American plants that have shifted operations to Mexico, the camera pans over a shantytown. In his narration Moore bemoans the fact that U.S. leaders said NAFTA "would build a better life for all Mexicans." Did anyone ever say that decades of poverty would be eradicated within...