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...cold afternoon in Riga's Freedom Square, an old man holds a banner listing Russia's crimes against the tiny nation of Latvia: OCCUPATION, GENOCIDE, TERROR. A young Russian woman approaches him. She talks, he shouts. His words vent the suppressed anger of a life spent under Moscow's thumb. Russians, who make up nearly half the population, must go, he says, or Latvia's culture will perish. The young woman walks away crying. A Russian man born in Latvia and determined to stay tries to argue. "You can't blame all Russians," he says, his hands shaking. Then...
...rate, Simon earned his stripes. He sprained a ligament in his right thumb and sported an impressive bandage after the game...
...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...
...seven years to find a date and make yourself presentable. "There is still plenty of time to coordinate your hair with your makeup," soothes fashion designer Dianne Brill. A night owl, Brill is planning the outfit she will wear to usher in the ) year 2000. Her rule of thumb: "Overdress, but be comfy...
...call for a return in spirit to the movies' puritanical Production Code of the 1930s -- all with the fervor of a modern Martin Luther, an angry evangelist determined to nail his 95 theses not on a church door but on a movie marquee. Problem is, he keeps hitting his thumb...