Word: virtually
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Despite years of worthy work, LaChiusa was a virtual unknown until a couple of months ago, when his equally imaginative First Lady Suite opened a too brief run off-Broadway. That collage featured a time-traveling romp in which Mamie Eisenhower caught her husband with a mistress, then journeyed with Marian Anderson to watch Ike integrate Little Rock, Arkansas; an eerie dream song in which a secretary to the Kennedys envisioned, on her way to the fateful motorcade in Dallas, the events about to unfold; and a wing-walking scene in which Eleanor Roosevelt's alleged lover, Lorena Hickok, bemoaned...
This much, the University and state officials have acknowledged. But news of other radioactive experiments at Fernald, which was used as a virtual colony for Harvard scientists in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, is just starting to break...
...group, Digitas, announced its founding over the electronic mail system on Monday. Its founders said they created the group to study the latest developments in technology and electronic communications, from virtual reality to networking...
...Someday, virtual-reality technology may enable people to put the screen icons behind them and step directly into the metaphor. In the future, says Levy, "we will cross the line between substance and cyberspace with increasing frequency, and think nothing of it." That's what Jobs would call a dent in the universe...
...everybody shares Burton's enthusiasm. Some critics are worried that private companies will use the science council as a virtual R. and D. lab, allowing them to reap the benefits of millions of dollars of federal science money without having to contribute a dime. Others fear that the science bureaucracy will get bigger, not smaller, making it a tempting tool for pork- minded politicians. Paul Romer, an economist from the University of California, Berkeley, questions how effective the NSTC will be at dismantling wasteful or irrelevant programs. "It will make virtually no difference," he predicts. "That spending is there because...