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Those seeds of inspiration from which senior theses spring are found in many places. Some students search the bowels of Widener, conversing with cracked tomes and sun-starved dust particles. Others wrestle with armies of spreadsheet numbers, prodding this column and that variable in search of deeper trends. Charity D. Shumway ’01 cracked open her mother’s private diaries...
Once clunky, overpriced gadgets that did little more than store phone numbers and addresses, handhelds are being reincarnated as sleek wireless accessories that let you do anything from find the nearest Lebanese restaurant to edit an Excel spreadsheet--all while standing in an elevator or waiting at a bus stop. PDAs are on their way to becoming the next must-have gadgets, like cell phones, showing up in the hands of everyone from Puffy to Rosie. Michael Jordan is reportedly planning his own signature Palm. Someday your PDA may even become your cell phone, electronic wallet and personal entertainment system...
...this specificity of purpose, says William Seltzer, an expert in demographic statistics at Fordham University, that provides the most damning evidence. "Microsoft is not responsible for every spreadsheet made with Excel," Seltzer told TIME.com. "But if someone is doing custom designing of a database, they have to know what's going on. With these punch cards, Dehomag had to design a card for every piece of new information that the government wanted...
...women who work the spreadsheet at the office, who do the night shift at the factory and who serve you coffee at 35,000 ft. They live in households with incomes between $15,000 and $75,000. They like Gore's economic populism--especially on issues that have got little media attention, like his plan for IRA-style savings instruments to build wealth. But because they're parents--married, divorced and unmarried--they carry a special concern for the moral climate of the country. This, combined with a distrust of Washington, makes them targets for Bush and his pitch...
...Waitress Moms The women who work the spreadsheet at the office, who do the night shift at the factory and who serve you coffee at 35,000 ft. They live in households with incomes between $15,000 and $75,000. They like Gore's economic populism - especially on issues that have got little media attention, like his plan for IRA-style savings instruments to build wealth. But because they're parents - married, divorced and unmarried - they carry a special concern for the moral climate of the country. This, combined with a distrust of Washington, makes them targets for Bush...