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...formal family outing--say, on Father's Day--to a good, though never ostentatious, New York City restaurant. In dresses, hats, jackets and ties, we would trudge through the heavy, reluctant revolving door and enter the place of civilization and ceremony. "This way, doctor." This way to the weighted silver plate and the thick linen tablecloths and napkins, and the pie a la mode...
There may be a silver lining to all this. If Moore's law somehow continues unabated, then by some estimates our computers by 2050 will be calculating well beyond 500 trillion bytes per sec., at which point, as Ray Kurzweil suggests (see "Will My PC Be Smarter Than I Am?"), they will be considerably smarter than we are. Evolution says organisms are replaced by species of superior adaptability. When our robots tire of taking orders, they may, if we're lucky, show more compassion to us than we've shown the species we have pushed into oblivion. Perhaps they will...
...despite the grim realities of Visa and MasterCard ubiquity, there could be a silver lining in all this for consumers. While the DOJ case could take most of the summer to unfold, the cumulative effects of such intense negative media scrutiny could become apparent much more quickly - Visa and MasterCard customers should keep an eye out for peace offerings (in the form of lowered monthly interest rates or other acts of magnanimity) over the next few months...
...Four of the most outstanding fencers for the young Harvard squad this year included Lee, junior co-captain epee Eugene Cha, junior foil Davin Chew and freshman sabre Scott Silver. Cha battled some of the top fencers in the nation valiantly, and his hard work allowed the Crimson to remain within striking distance of its opponents in most of its matches...
...source familiar with the group. By all accounts, the ecstasy ring was led by Papa, a premed student on the dean's list at Arizona State University, who used former high school friends to distribute the drug. Soon he began to emulate Gravano's life: he bought a flashy silver BMW M3 and began to hang out at his own choice table in some of the more upscale clubs. But, police say, Papa was still a small-time dealer. "It was 100 pills here and another 100 there...