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...rule of thumb, says Bell Labs' Penzias, technology will provide for people of the future what only the wealthiest can buy today. Where the rich now hire chauffeurs to drive them to work, for example, the working stiff of the future will be transported to work in his robocar. None of these advances are without their costs and risks. Drexler's assemblers, for example, could create bounties of goods and services -- or they could unleash artificial pests of unimaginable destructiveness. One nightmare creature from Drexler's book: an omnivorous bacteria-size robot that spreads like blowing pollen, replicates swiftly...
Stockdale Quayle Gore Violations Why were you there? Over time: 6. Reprimands: 5. Over time:3. Reprimands: 1. Hand Motions Nervously gripped pen with both hands, put glasses on and off, paced offstage and turned off hearing aid. Stiff-arm point, straight-arm point, half-point, finger point, half-arm with finger point, pen point. Fist, open hand, motion right, motion left with both hands, and repeat. Clothes Navy suit, blue tie with pointy designs in white/red. Navy suit, red tie with big paisleys. Blue suit with maroon based tie with moderate sized blue/green stripes. Personal References ."A new baby...
...sympathize with anyone who each year must watch 300 new movies, many of them junk. This may explain why Auntie Lee's Meat Pies, Lucky Stiff, Homer & Eddie and Closet Land -- films that barely achieved theatrical release -- are among the targets of Medved's dudgeon. It also leads him to catalog, in avid detail, outrages of manners in the movies. Who else would think to tabulate recent films with scenes of vomiting (36) or urination...
...Liberation Organization, which as a group endorses the talks and guides the actions of the Palestinian negotiators. More surprising still was the presence of two Muslim fundamentalist organizations, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. Up to now, these groups and the secular P.L.O. factions have held one another at a stiff arm's length...
...KNEW SOMETHING HAD TO give when George Bush started arguing with a 6- ft.chicken. For nearly a month, the President's men had been stiff-arming the dates and format proposed by a bipartisan debate commission and endorsed by Bill Clinton. The challenger was scoring political points by declaring that his opponent was afraid to face him man-to-man. Bush's charges of tax-and- spend liberalism, like his aggressive attacks on Clinton's draft record, were unable to dent the Democrat's double-digit lead in the polls. But when the Clinton forces began infiltrating Bush rallies with...