Word: tools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brother's cut-rate encyclopedia, suspiciously slim volumes that I would ransack for sixth-grade book report roughage, featured an innovative learning tool under the entry on the Human Body: seven consecutive pages of transparencies, each devoted to a different organic system. Page 1's skin'n'hair'n'nails fit neatly over Page 2's spindly circulation road map which in turn lay on Page 3's inexplicably adipose-yellow GI tracts or Halloween skeleton man, and so on. At a glance, you saw and saw through man instantly, as through, yes, X-ray specs, a three-dimensional simultaneity...
Indeed, Jobs, more clearly than any of his contemporaries, recognized the computer as a tool not for top-down corporate repression but for bottom-up individual empowerment and creativity, a lifelong article of faith to which Apple and Pixar today bear living tribute. Before launching into his evangelistic spiel from the Flint Center stage last week, Jobs briefly eulogized Sony founder Akio Morita, grandfather of the consumer-electronics industry, who had died just a few days earlier. "He expressed his love for the human species in every product he made," Jobs said in a clear, quiet voice...
...Ricky represents the filmmaker as foreigner. By using his camera as a tool of estrangement, he reacquaints himself with reality, seeing it in a new way. That is, after all, the job of a filmmaker: to present the audience with a new view of an old world. In American Beauty, Mendes succeeds wonderfully, turning our eyes not only to the hollowness and pains of suburbia but to the underlying beauty we can discover if we look a little closer...
...making purchases on the Internet--a popular tool of the young--only compounds that degree of painlessness says Schor, who teaches Women's Studies 132, "Shop 'Til You Drop: Gender and Class in Consumer Society" and is the director of studies for the committee on degrees in women's studies...
...Think of your cards as a tool. If you use them often but pay them off each month, you stand to earn perks as well as accruing a positive credit history. Though this may not seem like a big deal now, it will come in handy when you want to finance graduate school, buy a car, buy a house, etc. A negative credit history, on the other hand, can actually prevent you from making future purchases...