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...harping on the investment value of art, by hiring personable young sales cadres to explain the significance of the Meissen jug or the not-quite-Rubens, by creating user-friendly expertise, the auctioneers defused this wariness. By the early '80s dealers were getting cut out of the game by collectors buying directly at auction. And by 1988, when the auction room had been promoted into a Reagan-decade cathouse of febrile extravagance, where people in black tie and jewels applauded winning bids as though they were arias sung by heroic tenors, private dealers (at least those dealing in the work...
According to a user assisstant at the Science Center Computer Laboratory, there have been no problems with this particular IBM virus, but "we have Macintosh viruses on a regular basis...
Psychologists say upwardly mobile Americans who turn to crack share personality traits that may make them vulnerable to the drug's siren call. Dr. Jeffrey Rosecan, director of the Cocaine Abuse Treatment Program at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, sketches a profile of the typical crack user: a man in his 30s or 40s, single or divorced, with a high- pressure job, little inner peace and a history of moderate drug use and heavy drinking. "They're extremists, hard drivers, workaholics," says Rosecan. "With an all-or-nothing personality and a history of drug experimentation...
Initially, a crack addict can continue to function at work. But that first euphoric kick can be followed by depression and paranoia, which the user suppresses by getting high again. So begins a cycle of compulsive binging known as "chasing the high." Five-dollar "nickels" give way to $40 "doves." Soon crack addicts are spending $200 and more every night...
...this: type in a request to find any place in the Bible where the words valley, shadow and death occur in the same verse. The machine will obligingly display Psalm 23: 4. Can't recall the exact words? A built-in thesaurus lets the user search through synonyms. The machine also provides - pronunciations for proper names (Enoch is EE-nuck). A handicap for some will be difficulty in reading the enhanced liquid-crystal display, whose resolution is still inferior to that of larger, more expensive personal computers that can process Bible-reference software...