Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suddenly the brave new world of video phones and smart TVs that futurists have been predicting for decades is not years away but months. The final bottleneck - the "last mile" of wiring that takes information from the digital highway to the home - has been broken, and a blue-chip corporate lineup has launched pilot projects that could be rolled out to most of the country within the next six or seven years. Now the only questions are whether the public wants it and how much it is willing...
...interest to Californians. During the past 2,000 years, part of the San Andreas Fault near Los Angeles has been wrenched by 12 major earthquakes. On average they occurred 145 years apart. The most recent Big One hit in 1857. McPhee makes no predictions but figures his readers are smart enough to do their own arithmetic...
...with frustration as the bulk of criminal-justice funds goes to police protection, prisons and prosecutors, leaving just 2.3% for public defense services. "We aren't being given the same weapons," says Mary Broderick of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. "It's like trying to deal with smart bombs when all you've got is a couple of cap pistols...
...even inclined to star in a national morality play. Gunn grew up in Benton (pop. 3,800), Kentucky, where his family was active in the Church of Christ. Old classmates remember him as funny, convivial, not at all self-pitying about the brace on his withered right leg, and smart. Beverly Beasley, now an insurance agent in Benton, says, "I remember once when we were in the fifth grade, the history teacher started talking about the Constitution. David stood up and said he could recite the Bill of Rights from memory, and he proceeded to do it verbatim...
Sensing the provost's concern, the Devil takes him on a tour. The provost is bewildered, for the university seems ideal. The grounds are beautiful and well-maintained, the students are smart and eager, the professors are brilliant and productive...