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Science fiction, on the other hand, shows us a future where keyboards are a quaint memory. Watch any episode of Babylon 5 or Star Trek--the characters don't have Microsoft Natural Keyboards on their desks. Instead, they simply speak to their computers, which recognize their speech and act upon...
...turn in your Yale envelopes with a hefty check enclosed, then grab a free Harvard-Dartmouth football game coupon and trek to Hanover any way you like to help the team shut up the boisterous hosts, give Dartmouth a losing streak and assert Harvard spirit like you have never imagined...
Below is a partial and incomplete listing for the die-hard thrill seekers willing to make the trek...
...Norwegian hiker Oddaarne Skaldebo, a 51-year-old geologist, yesterday after emerging more than three weeks overdue from a trek through interior Alaska...
...understand the anxiety you feel as you begin your trek, and the continuing malaise you harbor even as you pick up speed. And I understand it is not from laziness, nor lack of motivation, that these feelings originate. It is the events which have taken their toll on you. But you can lose their burden in me. Yours is a burden which ought not exist. It dissipates, you know...