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Berners-Lee is sitting at his desk, in front of bookshelves that are bare, devoid of books and other old-fashioned forms of data. A few sheet-metal bookends stand there with nothing to do, and nearby are pictures of his family. He concentrates, trying to put a finer point on his notion of divinity. A verse he's heard in church comes to mind, but all he can remember are fragments. "All souls may..." his voice trails off "...to seek the truth in love..." He is silent for a moment. His brain has failed him. Then inspiration strikes. "Maybe...
While they do their exercise, they become mine. Write what they look like: 15 young people in jeans, sweatshirts and sweaters, bodies hooked over a white sheet of paper, pursuing memories, dressing them up and watching to ascertain that their hands are following their instructions. The flower is laid aside on the desk, its work done. The students are off now like hounds. They follow the scent to funerals, weddings, proms. One girl will remember lying in the night grass under a blue moon with her little sister. Another will recall a last dance with a midshipman in Navy whites...
...many kids she's raising in that house. There are four or five different families in there. Someone should track down the mother and make her take some responsibility." Mention of Tom's uncle Lenny Koskovich provokes a different response. "He's got a rap sheet that's as long as Scott Road. He is one bad man," says Clayton. The uncle is now serving his latest sentence, 10 years for burglary...
...G.O.P. CAMPAIGN 2000 TIP SHEET...
This process may already have started. Ted Scambos, an analyst at the National Snow and Ice Center in Boulder, Colorado, looks at a satellite image and says, "I see an ice sheet in the process of collapse." But before anyone rushes to sell off property in Florida, he hastens to add that there are still too many unknowns and that any change could take thousands of years...