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...whether our marriages until that point have been excellent, good or merely satisfactory. The cost of our best friend's birthday gift to us is no gauge of how well we have played our part as a friend. Our children will not assign their love for us to a standard deviation curved around a "B." Will other people judge our performance as a parent, friend or spouse? Without a doubt. But unlike the admissions committees at various schools of medicine, their opinions of us need not affect our lives. No one will be handing out scores anymore...
Enter Internet telephony. The idea is simple: Internet phone companies digitize the voices of the two people speaking on the phone and send the voices as packets through a standard high-speed IP connection instead of the PSTN. Because packets don't have to be sent in order or in sync, many more callers can be accommodated through relatively cheap, high-speed fiber lines. No computer is required on either end--IP phone companies take advantage of local phone systems to be the front--and back--ends of their calls...
...overtones of Western cultural hegemony by labeling all therapies and treatments outside the Western paradigm "alternative." In fact, most of these "alternative" practices constitute official, mainstream medicine in many other countries. The WHO estimates that more than 80 percent of population in developing countries use alternative therapies as a standard, everyday from of medicine...
...harder" search engine, one of those immensely useful sites that search the Internet for pages that contain whatever words or phrases you type in. This week Excite unveils its latest incarnation, centered on what the digerati call "personalization." If you want to stick with Excite's standard service, that's fine. But the more personal data you're willing to feed the site, the more the Net's teeming world of data will come formatted to your individual specifications each time you pay a visit...
...renaissance of the wine routes has brought about greater sensitivity to tourists' needs. Country hotels and bed-and-breakfasts measure up to a high standard, and many Cape estates include scenic picnic facilities or restaurants with decent cuisine--mostly European, with some South African touches such as ostrich filet, Cape Malay curry and water-lily and lamb casserole. Service is excellent, and the local wine is abundant, inexpensive and palatable. Several of the score of multistar restaurants are among the country's Top 10. Indeed, the mountain-ringed valley of Franschoek, where French Huguenot settlers arrived 300 years ago, bringing...