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Other concerns: Would the fact that each of our almost 4 million subscribers received a personally addressed message on this week's cover raise unwarranted forebodings about how the wondrous technology of personalized printing might infringe on their privacy? Also: in creating our personalized covers we took advantage of the "ink jet" process, which, when combined with "selective binding," permits our magazine (and direct mail) to be aimed at readers with almost intimate accuracy. Our advertisers, in fact, have used this printing capability to send personalized messages to our wide range of subscribers. Might some suspicious types think that...
From the inside, Ash conveys the feeling that he and the ragtag bunch of reformers are truly in Revolution Central. At the same time, he demonstrates the agitated spontaneity with which the rapid changes occurred, the wondrous transfer of power from "the castle" to the Magic Lantern...
...Fans watch an aging hitter's creaky swing, or a runner's lethargy on the base paths, or a pitcher's loss of velocity and feel the beer breath of mortality on their own necks. Nolan Ryan, whom sportswriter Thomas Boswell has called "the Act of God," is the wondrous exception to this melancholy rule. The Texas Ranger hurler is 43 years old now, and he has more major league records than candles on his next birthday cake...
...elevator doors opened into a cavernous room in an underground tunnel outside Geneva. Out came the eminent British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, in a wheelchair as always. He was there to behold a wondrous sight. Before him loomed a giant device called a particle detector, a component of an incredible machine whose job is to accelerate tiny fragments of matter to nearly the speed of light, then smash them together with a fury far greater than any natural collision on earth...
Timothea, who works for a publishing company, decides to make Colm Liverpool's new poet when she secretly publishes his writings to her in a book called Sea Sonnets. She presents the book to him one night before dinner, and Colm is wondrous. "What is a sonnet anyway?" he asks, and when Timothea explains that these sonnets are his poems, he replies that they are really nothing more than marks--sea marks...