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...snapshot and a chronicle of the technological revolution of the 1980s, Extra Life does a magnificent job. In today's high-powered, electronically driven world, it's hard to fathom a time when a dual 5-1/2" floppy disk drive was a luxury. But Bennahum takes us back to the good old days of home technology, when a simple game with plumbers from Brooklyn captivated a nation and ushered in a new era of living. Game over? Not hardly, when there's always the opportunity for an extra life...
Because the IM now only looks at "a snapshot" of a family's income and assets, examining them only at one point in time, some families feel as though their savings are counted against them...
...businesses illustrate this sort of generational corporate conflict better than the book-selling industry. If you want a snapshot of the e-economy, 1998, you could do worse than Jeff Bezos, the founder of bookseller Amazon.com One day last week, as his stock price rose and fell with typical volatility, he stalked through his shuttered Seattle office, on a phone call, staring at his wristwatch, pacing, talking, thinking, plotting, scheming, then glancing at the watch again. Like the Net Economy, Bezos is all about motion...
...result is a detailed, computer-generated snapshot of the HIV infection process that is as starkly beautiful as it is informative. The picture shows, for example, that some of the virus' most stable--and therefore vulnerable--structures are either located at the bottom of crevices, where the relatively bulky antibodies of the immune system can't reach them, or obscured by great forests of sugar molecules. One particularly attractive target comes out of hiding only in that brief moment after gp120 latches onto the CD4 receptor and before it attaches to the chemokine receptor--much too briefly for the immune...
...snapshot of a young solar system in the making," Jayawardhana said. "It is a missing link between disks around Younger stars and disks around older stars...