Word: signal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Videoconferencing has moved out of the boardroom and into the den, thanks to this low-priced unit that squeezes a video and an audio signal over regular phone lines. Of course, moving up the technology ladder has its price: with your mug constantly onscreen, you'll need to remember not to roll your eyes in dismay until after you hang up the phone. ($449.99; Creative Labs...
...biographies and autobiographies of people who get rich quick, and one wonders why it has taken Hollywood so long to convert such types from shadowy antagonist--their usual role in thrillers--to shiny protagonist. One's next thought, of course, is the hope that Ransom does not signal the beginning of a trend...
...York Times article on the first of this month, "people with an unshakable thirst for new sensations, who are impulsive, hot-blooded, fickle, excitable and extravagant, tend to have a distinctive variant of a gene that allows the brain to respond to dopamine, an essential communication signal...
...Owens, the protagonist of A Regular Guy, is an Oregon geneticist-tycoon vaguely modeled on Bill Gates or Steve Jobs (the author's brother). As a student he has had an affair with Mary, an earthbound girl, who becomes pregnant. In the book's signal exchange Tom tells her, "I can't have a baby now, Mare. I've just started something. I've got to give it time." Of course, Mary has just started something too, and that will be her destiny...
...more one invests in the political process, the more one receives in dividends. Too prove that point, just compare neighborhoods and ask whose potholes are being fixed, whose infrastructure is being rehabilitated and even who gets visits from their representative. The fact that voters choose not to vote should signal that our politics is in need of correcting. And what of the voter who chooses to vote for a candidate who has no measurable chance for electoral success? That voter uses his or her vote to make a value statement, an opportunity that few people take advantage...