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...difference is choice. The only choice a filmgoer or TV viewer has is to walk out or turn off. Even Star Tours and Universal Studios' Back to the Future ride are, at heart, drive-in movies; you're just driving in a car with no shock absorbers. VR, which lets you wander at will through a force field or minefield, offers a democracy of entertainment. As VR programmer Randal Walser wrote, "The filmmaker says, 'Look, I'll show you.' The spacemaker says, 'Here, I'll help you discover...
...Grossholz is in shock, as are thousands of other engineers, construction workers, scientists -- and most of Texas. With $2 billion already spent and the project 20% complete, the world's largest and most sophisticated scientific instrument, a particle accelerator designed to probe the innermost secrets of the universe, was canceled last week by a 282-to-143 vote in the House of Representatives. Said Ohio Democrat Eric Fingerhut: "This was a project that we couldn't afford. We need to take every opportunity to reduce our deficit...
...Havel's political career in motion. The significance of this period in recent Czech history is equalled only by the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989, during which Havel himself assumed the presidency. Kriseova explains how the oppressiveness of the 1950s had suffocated the peoples' voices of opposition. "After a shock, society comes to its senses slowly, one person at a time." Havel entered into an arena which would become increasingly political and further from the artistic circles where he had previously been known. Although Havel had never been aligned with the communist governments, it was the aftermath of the Soviet invasion...
...best stories in this book involve culture shock. Sometimes the shock is Merrill's, as when Dr. Detre explains that an Italian's repeated "Ti voglio bene" had meant not "I wish you well" (as it would in a textbook) but "I love you." At other times the culture shock is ours. Merrill inhabited, when he chose, both the inaccessible world of the super-rich (James Merrill's much-married father, Charles Merrill, helped found Merrill Lynch) and the world of young, well-educated gay men long before either Stonewall or AIDS. When Charles first suspected that James...
...also a tad confused by something else the Herr Professor said, namely that one of the "proofs" of heterosexual superiority is procreation. Heterosexuals have children; homosexuals do not. The mind boggles. I am sure Professor Mansfield's claims will come as quite a shock to the thousands of gay men and lesbians in this country who do in fact have children. Equally shocked will be the countless heterosexuals who have no plans to "breed." Unfortunately, Mansfield has confused the charge to reproduce the species (a charge, by the way, which an over populated planet might well wish to apply with...