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...growing lack of intimacy, in a way, symbolizes his one big disappointment with it. It was meant to be a social place. "The original goal was working together with others," he says. "The Web was supposed to be a creative tool, an expressive tool." He had imagined, say, a worker posting a memo on a Website accessible only to colleagues and having them react by embedding hyperlinks that led to their comments or to other relevant documents; or a bicoastal family similarly planning its annual reunion on the family site...
...memoir when the author creates a credible impression of Jesus. Most of these occur early, during the period least thoroughly covered by the four Gospels. Mailer's Jesus writes movingly of his time as an apprentice carpenter: "So my trade became my pride, and I knew respect for the tools in my box. A rasp, a plane, a hammer, an auger, a gimlet, an adze, a cubit rule, a saw, and three chisels for paring, as well as a gouge--all were mine. And my knowledge of how to treat wood became another tool...
Game theory is a tool that economists, mathematicians and political scientists use to analyze strategic situations, in which several participants have conflicting objectives and their actions affect the well-being of the other parties...
...regular as Antonio the cabdriver on the NBC sitcom "Wings" and who played the master chef in last year's surprise hit film Big Night. One might expect then that Shalhoub's role would be the central one, but surprisingly, his presence is only used as a tool to tie the three vignettes together. His role as Bobby Gould is that of an observer, a sponge of sorts that just soaks in what is around him. He engages in conversation with four other people, but they only use him as a means to express their frustrations and anxieties about life...
However, she does not believe many Harvard students use Masterplots as anything more than a supplementary tool...