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...culture as "less-is-more" modernism ever was. Worse, it has abandoned all the social aspirations of the early modern movement. Yet antimodernism has demonstrated one important lesson: the absurdity of seeking a universal style. Designers talk increasingly about "pluralism," and they even picked up computer-advertising jargon about "user friendliness...
VCRS come in nonportable tabletop models or portables. With the portables, the recorder can be detached from the tuner and carried on a shoulder strap. Together, the recorder and a small video camera enable the user to take "movies" at the Little League ball park, the beach or anywhere...
...play back the cassette. The chief advantage of the VHS camcorder, sold by Zenith and JVC, is that it comes equipped with an electronic view finder that is actually a tiny (one-inch-square) black-and-white TV mounted on the side of the camera. This setup allows the user to instantly review what has just been taped. It also has a fade control, so that amateur directors can end shots artistically by fading to black...
...tragic wake of Bhopal, safety reviews are under way in most of the U.S., the world's biggest producer and user of MIC and other pesticides. Nearly a billion tons of pesticides and herbicides, comprising 225 different chemicals, was produced in the U.S. last year, and an additional 79 million lbs. was imported. MIC is stored or used at plants in New York, West Virginia, Texas, Alabama and Georgia. Those insecticides not dependent on the compound, like malathion, are also construct ed of toxic molecules. Dow Chemical Co., one of the nation's largest producers of agricultural...
...even solve the ethical dilemma. After all, the Salk children were put at risk, and they were no less innocent than the rest. But by involving his own kin (and himself), Salk arranged to suffer with the others if his science failed. He crossed the line that separates user from used. By joining his fate to the used, he did not so much solve the ethical problem as turn it, heroically, into an existential...