Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smart plan whose execution has been more or less perfect. The catchy populist name. That effortless user interface. Those millions of free starter discs. Those infamous chat rooms. And, of course, that cheerful robot chirping, "You've got mail" (now the title of a romantic comedy coming soon, via Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan and two humming laptops, to a multiplex near...
...cheaper and certainly not faster. Amazon chops an impressive 30% or 40% off the list prices of most hardcovers, but standard shipping adds back about $4 and takes three to seven business days. Next-day shipping runs $11, eating nearly every penny of the $11.58 you'd save on Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full, for instance, compared with the full list price...
After centuries of bad p.r., Death has a media strategy. And its chief spin doctor is named Kevorkian. He's too demonic to be an ideal pitchman. When he bent over Youk with a syringe and asked, "Sleepy, Tom?," the image was bloodcurdling. But he has an unerring sense of what excites journalists--and incites prosecutors. Three days after the 60 Minutes story aired on CBS, Kevorkian got what he had explicitly wished for: he was charged with first-degree murder. Though he has been acquitted three times of helping patients end their life, this time he crossed a significant...
...national TV. A retired pathologist, he first came to prominence in 1990 when he helped a relatively healthy 54-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease kill herself with a suicide machine of his invention. Since then he has assisted in more than 130 suicides. "He's the Tom Paine or the Martin Luther King of our movement," says Girsh. "He's willing to break the law for the cause." But to his critics he is an unrepentant killer who harbors an unhealthy fascination with death. Kevorkian does little to dispel such suspicions. Asked by Mike Wallace if there...
MARCY CARSEY and TOM WERNER, two of television's most prolific producers (3rd Rock from the Sun, The Cosby Show, Roseanne) are proud to be "charter members" of the TV generation. Who better than they to tell you about David Sarnoff, the brilliant man who founded NBC and put that addictive device in your living room...