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...clear? Those who think so are called "computer literate," which is synonymous with young, intelligent and employable; everybody else is the opposite. Any new technology requires its technical terms, of course, but computerese also reaches out with robot arms to seize ordinary words and twist them to its own syntactical purposes. The most striking example is the forced conversion of nouns into verbs. The computer-literate person has learned to access, to format, to interface. Anyone who objects to such jargon is, to the computer literate, not merely uninformed but bletcherous...
Sherry with a twist...
...Cessna lost power and crashed in Montgomery, Ohio, last week, four FBI agents and a retired policeman were killed, the largest single-day loss of FBI agents. But the revelation that the sixth passenger, Carl Johnson, had been declared legally dead just weeks before the crash put a bizarre twist on the disaster...
...assistant to California's liberal Democratic Senator Alan Cranston that inspired Helms to threaten the Senate leadership with a ten-hour filibuster to block confirmation. In Helms' view, even the hawkish President was not selecting tried and true conservatives to the arms negotiating posts. In a sudden twist, the White House gave up the fight and is expected to withdraw Grey's name...
...after questioning, Hambleton was released on the grounds that his spying did not directly affect Canadian security. That decision led Hambleton mistakenly to believe he was immune from prosecution when he nonchalantly flew to England for a visit. But in his defense last week, Hambleton unveiled yet another twist to his story. Espionage charges against him were unwarranted, his lawyer claimed, because he had in fact been a double agent working for NATO all along...