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...There is plenty of time to get schoolwork and reading done," says Peter S. Manasantivongs '98, who began working at the lab last fall. "Unless a VCR or a computer breaks down, you can usually get much work done...
Charren also suggests setting up a video club with neighbors and friends; the VCR does offer parents more control. And she sensibly warns against using TV time as reward or punishment. "Treat it as if it were candy," she says, "and it will become candy...
Reassured by what he saw, Vinogradov eased himself into the module and turned to his principal task: connecting power cables from outlets in the wall to the new hatch. On Earth, the job would be little harder than screwing cables into a vcr, but in bulky gloves and zero G, it was far more difficult. As Vinogradov struggled, Mission Control urged him to take his time. "Don't rush. You have enough oxygen," the Mission Control chief admonished...
...manhunt leave you wanting? Is spectacle, not suicide, what you crave? Then here, for your VCR, are some fictional blazes of glory that put the news channels to shame. James Cagney's classic White Heat might just be the king of them all. Said to be based on Arthur "Doc" Barker and his "Ma," Cagney's mama's boy Cody Jarrett went out, back in 1949, like no one before or since. One of the first strictly setting-driven action movie finales (think of the two Terminators and their convenient ending locales), and also the hardest-boiled. Absolutely required...
There's not much glamour in the Internet router business. The VCR-size boxes that weave computers into networks belong to the realm of techies. Late at night, when corporations sleep, "geek squads"--the human infrastructure of the information age--stuff routers into closets, under desks or anywhere out of sight. It is not a business that produces headlines...