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...people stopped buying stuff. Voila: recession...
...make a quick trip abroad. En route from the office, you book yourself on a flight using a device the size of a cigarette pack. As you stride into the airport, a camera zooms in on your face and compares your features with those stored in its database. Voila! You're checked...
...University's decision last year to put termbills on-line is thus a welcome change. Now that it has been put into effect, students can go to www.termbill.harvard.edu, enter their Harvard ID number and PIN, and voila! end their ignorance of their fiscal plights. In fact, such easy access to termbill information may well encourage us to be more responsible about those accumulating costs. We might even remember those Widener books hiding under our beds before three months have gone...
French microchip engineer Jean-Pierre Gloton slips a thin rectangle of plastic into a port linked to a PC and types in a code. Voila! A personalized Web navigator blossoms on the screen. "With this, I can access various e-mail accounts and websites, trade stocks, buy goods and pay bills with a single click, using personal and banking information stored in a fraud-proof way," says Gloton, 56, as he removes the "smart card" that gives him these powers and returns it to his wallet. "This card contains a microchip that makes it a veritable minicomputer--with memory...
WINE Pick a sweetheart label at wine.com add a message and voila...