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...they all stand in the shadow of Alvin and Heidi Toffler, the husband-and-wife team whose 1970 blockbuster, Future Shock, blasted the infant profession into the mainstream and set the standard by which all subsequent would-be futurists have been measured. A quarter-century later, having been catapulted back onto the front pages through their association with Newt Gingrich's "cyberbrain trust," the Tofflers are about to be repackaged for the digital era by Creative Artists Agency, the Hollywood agenting Goliath. The vehicle for this effort: a multimedia clearinghouse called FutureNet, which is building everything from a site...
...summer after my junior year I decided to work in a lab in Paris. It was interesting work, and I could use my newfound knowledge later on in the summer to explain to my German teacher what might be the cause of her battle with the 5 o'clock shadow. Of course I couldn't be too sure about it--I only knew that "Daisy" (a kind of gene) might have caused some of her problems. But at the end of the month I craved sunshine, and it started to grate on me that I had to take...
...Station, where the Boston of yesterday and the Boston of tomorrow converge to produce the ugly mess that is the North Boston of today. Here lie the remains of the venerable home of Boston sports, the Garden. Alongside is its newly-erected replacement, the FleetCenter, which casts a domineering shadow over the continuous stream of cars and trucks on Causeway Street below...
This was great for Bauer, who has long labored in the shadow of the other baby-faced Christian activist, Ralph Reed. Yet Bauer professes to be mystified by Dole: "We prayed together in his office recently, and I gave him a lot of help on his Hollywood speech." By making the fight personal, Dole got everyone so caught up in skirmishing that most of the coverage missed the central fact that Dole hasn't changed his commitment to ban most abortions--or the actual party plank--one iota. That's the beauty of making a friend an enemy, however temporarily...
...like the grin of the Cheshire Cat--the cat's gone and only the grin is still here," says Anthony G. Oettinger '51, a member of the Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction. "It's a pale shadow compared to the heyday under [then-president James B. Conant...