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...into a giant shopping mall under construction: lots of nooks and crannies but nothing to see yet. For now, Microsoft is happy to direct people out to the Internet, via its somewhat clunky browser, the Internet Explorer. Sometime next year Microsoft will release Blackbird, a so-called developer's tool that could attract content providers by giving them the wherewithal to create multimedia pages that rival anything available on the Internet today. An even bigger plus: Microsoft will handle billing on behalf of its content partners, the merchants who will set up shop there. That could help create...
...grant that humans can be tools of the devil, let's remember he's our tool as well. As the majestic adversary in Paradise Lost or the heavy-metal party animal, Satan may be a capable tempter. But not until he falls into human hands is the Old Enemy put to his most sinister uses...
During an hour-long question and answer session earlier this year, the panel of college presidents fielded questions from the caucus and presented information supporting their theory that higher education is a valuable tool for helping AFDC recipients get off welfare...
...Kent State associate professor ofinstructional technology, Drew Tiene, created adocumentary about the killings this spring. Anundergraduate in 1970 who had been a demonstratorin the anti-war movement, Tiene wanted thedocumentary to be used as "a tool to teach peoplewhat led to the deaths," according to an articlein the Chronicle of Higher Education...
...links that bind users to Microsoft software run deep-down to the level of "plumbing" invisible to the user but of critical importance to the programmer. For example, Microsoft has for several years been using a tool called ole (for object linking and embedding) that makes it easier for users to move information from one Windows application to another-to shuttle an expense report from a spreadsheet to a word-processing document, for example. Apple is developing a competing system, called OpenDoc, that is supposed to run equally well on Windows, Mac and IBM's OS/2. But if a programmer...