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...have in common is the roar of a phantom crowd; they always speak of other people having spoken them. It's as if they come with a built-in laugh track. And keeping us on track, they provoke in us click responses, the sort of electronic-entertainment reaction we twitch and jerk to more often lately. We hear Not even close, He's history or What's wrong with this picture?, and we immediately sense the power structure of the moment. In fact, we may subconsciously applaud such speakers because they've hypertexted our little lives right into Friends, Seinfeld...
Whether customers embrace the new services, however, may depend as much on technical issues as on cost. Gamers hooked on such "twitch" titles as Quake and Duke Nukem live for lightning-fast action. This is easy to reproduce on high-speed office networks; it remains to be seen whether it can be delivered over standard modems and phone lines. "The allure of being in front of those 30 million people is awfully attractive," says Bob Huntley, president of DWANGO, a network gaming operation. "But I wouldn't put Doom or Duke Nukem on the Internet...
Vaughn Pinkett, 33, of Miami, learned firsthand just how debilitating some of the side effects can be. He was riding a bus two weeks after starting the cocktail therapy when his legs began to twitch violently. "I felt like I was plugged into an electrical socket," Pinkett recalls. "It was like someone had two knobs--one heat, one vibration--and they just kept turning up the volume." After a few minutes, he regained control of his legs. Fortunately, the spasms haven't returned, and Pinkett, whose treatment is paid for by Medicaid, has regained both his energy and his appetite...
...bigger debate was whether what Saddam had done warranted Washington's response. "A Western whack on an Arab state, however unsavory, causes twitchiness," says an official in Kuwait, "and if the reason is not immediately apparent, the twitchiness increases." To calm the twitch, Perry spent three days in five Arab and Middle Eastern capitals. Perry's argument, according to a Western official in Kuwait: "Saddam showed his capacity to do reasonably complicated military operations effectively in a short time, and if he got away with such actions in the north, he would be emboldened to try the same where...
...that after pitching Dole on a series of economic issues earlier this year, he left the meeting dejected, certain Dole had been unimpressed. But his partner, Utah's Bob Bennett, said, "No, don't worry, that went fine." "How do you know?" Mack asked. "Did you see his eye twitch?" replied Bennett. "That means he liked...