Word: whats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"O.K. I'll go with the vegetable platter. What can be wrong with corn?"
There's a danger that conservation groups will put out too many messages or that the anarchists who rioted in Seattle will discredit the whole movement. But for now, the greens are betting they can get more of us to think about what we buy and how our pocketbooks can...
Some sites, of course, were better prepared than others. By bringing on enough servers to handle peak-load traffic, the best avoided "site busy" messages and snail-like downloads. They also kept puzzled shoppers from fleeing by providing an 800 number or offering real-time Instant Messaging chats with customer...
The pundits tell us that the central division in our transnational world is between the "slow" cultures of the plow and the "fast" ones of the microchip, the gap between them accelerating at an unprecedented rate. But what is more of a vexation in our modern times--a temporal Tower...
The single biggest strangeness of the American Century we're leaving is that it has been shaped, to a startling extent, by a technology that encourages us to believe that progress is a good in itself, and by a global power, the world's youngest, that is more interested in...