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Citibank is equipping automated-teller machines in its 575 branches nationwide with high-resolution graphics and easy-to-read symbols for people with disabilities, thus conforming to the Americans with Disabilities Act. To enter the amount of the transaction, users tap the screen. Video-game-style bleeps signal completion of each step. The design also allows for easier wheelchair access...
Consider, for example, a presidential race in which the leading candidate tap-dances and croons torch songs, carries on a tabloid affair with a beauty- pageant entrant and has a running mate who is a national joke when he's not a faceless nonentity. This party's winning agenda consists of one word: love. Americans are urged to vote their belief in romance, and overwhelmingly they fall...
...visiting lists. But the University wants results, and results come from places that have proved successful in the past. The pool of college bound lower class Hispanics is not increasing and no one is making an active effort to increase it. Universities throughout the country do not tap this resource regularly. If they did, they may be surprised at the students they find. Some barrio kids do make it to college...
...some European countries, like the Netherlands, support ending most limits on flights for U.S. carriers, others favor more restrictions. U.S. Transportation Secretary Andrew Card hinted that unless other countries open their skies to American carriers, foreign airlines could face limited access to U.S. cities. European airlines are eager to tap the American pool of 600 million passengers a year, which represents 40% of the world market. Secretary Card met last week for the first time with British Transport Secretary John MacGregor to help hasten a decision by Card on whether to approve the British Airways-USAir deal...
Golgotha and Myra have several things in common: fantastic sexual gambits and a kind of Lewis Carroll flouting of the laws of time. Plotted like a mystery for late-page plot twists, it casts Paul as a tap-dancing gay, Jesus as a brilliant businessman. Drawing on the work of historian Joel Carmichael, Vidal argues that when Jesus threw the money changers out of the temple, he was destroying a sophisticated Roman financial structure that controlled banking in the Middle East -- and thereby sealing his own fate...