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Organizers, who will be massed toward the front of the audience, will raise orange and red balloons as a signal for the walk-out to begin...
...exercise at the same pace. Eight glasses of water or other fluids (except alcohol and caffeine) make up the base of the new pyramid. Younger adults need the same amount, but they don't have to be told to drink. Thirst tells them. As people age, though, the thirst signal can fade and fail to warn of dehydration...
...what I really yearn for, as I watch the beautifully rendered 3-D graph that sprints across my screen in flickering blues, purples and reds, is a Jodie Foster moment. In the movie Contact, you may remember, Foster plays a frustrated SETI scientist who stumbles across an alien radio signal. That's how I see it happening to me: I'll be slumped over my desk in the Time & Life Building, struggling with another bout of writer's block, when all that random noise will suddenly transform itself into a smooth undulating wave...
...been wired to the satellite for nearly a week now, and I'm generally happy with the DISHPlayer and the DBS service. The TV signal is as brilliantly clear and reliable as cable. And I get far more programming for my $50--including Disney, six HBO channels, Showtime and Cinemax--than I ever got with cable. I was especially pleased to find those Larry Sanders reruns and relieved that although the program airs inconveniently at suppertime, the DISHPlayer gives me a choice of two different ways to eat my cake and have my Larry too: I can record the show...
...This is an important signal from an otherwise conservative court that some things will not be approved," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley. Though the states have been given much leeway in making welfare harder to get, the court indicated today that one impermissible way is to create two classes of citizens based on length of residency. In the words of Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the court: "Citizens of the United States, whether rich or poor, have the right to choose to be citizens of the State wherein they reside.... The States, however, do not have any right...