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What sounds like a confession at a meeting of Computer Addicts Anonymous--an organization that doesn't exist yet but could become the 12-step program of the new millennium--describes a disturbing dependency that may be affecting millions of computer users who succumb to the siren song of cyberspace, not just at home but during office hours. It is a compulsion so relatively new and scantily studied that doctors can't agree on what to call it--Internetomania, problematic use of the Internet, compulsive computer use and just plain computer addiction are a few monikers--let alone what causes...
...fascinated. But I feel that Ambinder's interest misses the most important aspect of fire-fighting. He gets excited about "the fire engine, the hoses and the nozzles and the rapidly flashing lights and the scream of the siren." What makes me stop and watch, what makes my heart race is something far different. I stop because firefighters are heroes. They wait every day for a call that requires them to put their lives in danger...
...they hit the Manchester club scene in the early '90s, the two DJs were the Dust Brothers, attracting a cult following at the clubs Naked Under Leather and Most Excellent. Their mixing philosophy and music choice at the time are best described by Rowlands himself, "Big Bass, Big Drums, Siren, Mad." Brother's Gonna Work It Out includes several songs frequently mixed by the Dust Brothers during their early shows. Samples from DBX, Serotonin Project and Dubtribe Sound System all provide glimpses into the past of the Chemical Brothers...
...such cheer, developed by co-captain Emily Stauffer and Kristen Bowes '98, begins with a player repeating the sound of a fire engine siren three times. The rest of the bench then chimes in with, "Fire, fire, fire...
...excitement is the fire engine, the hoses and the nozzles, the rapidly flashing lights and the scream of the siren...