Word: tags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face to face, we could have dispensed with all that tired, wetware chitchat. Our Thinking Tags could have negotiated any fruitful common ground. These tags, the brainchildren of Borovoy and a team of researchers at M.I.T.'s Media Lab, are little wearable computers that can seek out other "smart" tags in a room and swap data. In that way, one can, upon approaching a stranger at a crowded, Thinking Tag-equipped conference, immediately know whether it's worth the brain cycles to attempt social intercourse...
...forget that for the moment. Forget too arguments about ridiculously high valuations that have often been trotted out during the past few years. You may even disregard certain classic signs that the market has nowhere to go but down: last spring's record $1.45 million price tag for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, or mounting margin debt in brokerage accounts, or a raft of fast-selling new investment books--including at least three about wizard Warren Buffet...
...showed that the white blood cells of the immune system look for changes in a key marker called the self protein, which identifies cells as belonging to one's own body. Any alterations in this protein--such as those that occur when a cell is invaded by a virus--tag the cell for destruction. Doherty and Zinkernagel's research, which won this year's Physiology or Medicine Nobel, could lead to new kinds of vaccines against cancer, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune disorders...
When she was young and began falling in love with cars, she could tell the make and model in the dark, just by the headlights. She and her friends chased the cars around the neighborhood, played tag and kick the can. "Those were the days. Life was good and easy then," she says. And she laughs to herself. "It's still pretty good. It's just not easy...
...divide. Make it work for you. You have already begun your "Clinton is really a liberal" attack on the stump, and the latest polls suggest that it's working. Some of your advisers disagree, but you're running out of options, so keep it up. Repetition works. The liberal tag can substitute for frontally attacking the President's character, which can be seen as meanspirited...