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David S. Bennahum '90 reflects that same sense of serenity in technology with his new memoir Extra Life: Coming of Age in Cyberspace. He portrays technology as the safe haven for teenagers whose lives might not be picture-perfect. Family and societal turmoil fades into the background while they take refuge in a computer lab. Complex but logical strings of programming code restore order and sense to otherwise tumultuous lives...
...layoffs, plus Wall Street's tortured gyrations, have driven consumer confidence to a 20-month low, according to the University of Michigan's closely watched survey. The farm sector is already in a recession, pushed there by falling commodity prices that have been deeply affected by the turmoil in Asia. This in turn has affected machinery producers such as Case and Cummins Engine, whose profits fell steeply in the third quarter of the year. Then there is the so-called wealth effect. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan warned of the dangers of removing more than $1.5 trillion in business and consumer...
Griffith makes the sealant rubber that Daimler-Benz, Volvo, Mack Trucks and other truckmakers use around windshields and under hoods. Laney sees a domino effect: if U.S. companies can't ship their products to Asia, Brazil, Russia or other places in economic turmoil, they won't need trucks to get their products to port. That's why Laney is scaling back, even though orders for new trucks increased in 1998. "We're not spending money on new equipment," he says. And after two years in which Griffith built two new plants and invested some $3.5 million in new manufacturing capacity...
...love for my daughter--and a year of internal turmoil--brought me to PFLAG (Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays). Educating myself through experience and through PFLAG has been the best thing that has happened to me in terms of coming to understand who my daughter and my nephew are. I believe, at this point, that being gay is not a choice. Why would somebody choose this lifestyle only to be persecuted...
...hardest decision I've ever had to make in my life," she says. "That summer, I had no intention of taking time off. I thought, `Yeah, I have just one year to finish up.' I was in such turmoil for a week, and literally the day we registered at Harvard, I went up and I withdrew...