Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stand at the start of a new movement in this delicate dance of technology and faith: the marriage of God and the global computer networks. There's no sure way to measure how much the Internet will change our lives, but the most basic truth about technological revolutions is that they change everything they touch. Just as the first telescopes forever altered our sense of where we sit in the cosmos, so the Internet may press and tug at our most closely held beliefs. Will the Net change religion? Is it possible that God in a networked age will look...
...cranked on that Extra up in the press box like there was no tomorrow. Every five minutes, Matt would exclaim, "I love this!" Truth be told, I loved it too. And as the sun began to disappear over the horizon, I almost wished our project would just take a little bit longer. But like all good things, it too came...
...hanging out in the yard playing frisbee, emerging from their rooms and behaving like college students for the first time since they arrived. Wide-eyed pre-frosh can't help but think Harvard isn't as bizarre as it is reputed to be. Then they come and discover the truth: the gray, the reclusive students, the stressed out over-achievers contemplating mediocrity. No playing in the sun here. And there is no sun anyway...
...color" and, therefore, I was out of luck. I imagine that in the minds of those who support programs like SEO, I simply went home, called up my uncle on the stock exchange, got a job and retired to a posh country club for the evening. Unfortunately, the truth is that I must search through volumes of binders at OCS and actually perform the pedestrian task of sending out resumes...
Crichton sometimes has morals to his stories, and here there are two: that aircraft are ingenious and safe, and that TV journalists aren't after the real truth, just great visuals--but these pearls don't get in the way. The only real problem is that the stakes are so low. How much do we care that an aircraft company may be the subject of a damning news story...