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While this investment frenzy has chilled a little of late, what has driven it is a simple realization: we're on the brink of a major technosocial upheaval that's right up there with the steam engine, car, TV and computer. It promises the ultimate technological breakthrough for the information age. Virtually all information will be available to you at all times, whether you're taking a day off from work, visiting the in-laws or traveling to Fiji. With the importance of physical location diminished, even irrelevant, you'll be able to answer an e-mail from your boss...
...really enjoyed my preview of retirement life. There's a pool tournament, cabaret night, constant gin rummy games and lots of hanging out with friends in the steam room. I've eaten sliced bagel chips just inches from Soupy Sales and Fyvush Finkel. And I've smelled Buddy Hackett...
...proves that architecture as a fine art has not run out of steam," he said...
...Fortunately, the production picks up steam as it moves along; by Act III the work seamlessly shifts into a full-throttled farce, tending to obliterate memory of what proceeded before it. Despite its shortcomings, the play holds up as a funny, frothy work. After all, "Style, not sincerity, is the vital thing" in Wilde's world...
...early '90s for reining in inflation and facing down two leftist guerrilla insurgencies, many voters have turned against Fujimori. "The economy is stagnating with some 60 percent underemployment in urban areas," says McGirk. "After Fujimori's 10 years in power, many people think he has run out of steam...