Word: yorker
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...have looked at that. We haven't been able to figure out if it makes economic sense. There are a lot of things you can do with technology, but whether it's a business is a separate question. There was a cartoon, I think in the New Yorker magazine, of two young computer geeks, and one was holding a newspaper, and he turned to the other and said, "Look at this new invention. Somebody has downloaded the whole page into a user-friendly format." It's a wonderful cartoon...
DIED. HERBERT WARREN WIND, 88, writer of elegant prose on golf for the New Yorker and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED; of pneumonia; in Bedford, Mass. The author of 14 books, he coined the term Amen Corner to describe three consecutive treacherous, prayer-inducing holes on the back nine at Augusta National, home of the Masters...
...last.) Loyal Wikipedians argue that collaboration improves articles over time, just as free open-source software like Linux and Firefox is more robust than for-profit competitors because thousands of amateur programmers get to look at the code and suggest changes. It's the same principle that New Yorker writer James Surowiecki asserted in his best seller The Wisdom of Crowds: large groups of people are inherently smarter than an élite...
...Saturday morning, and like a typical New Yorker, Biz Johnson-Brown, 31/2, is running late. Class has already been in session for half an hour when she parks her purple Princess bike near the door and, accompanied by her father, Bruce Brown, joins half a dozen other children as they climb and crawl and tiptoe their way through a miniature obstacle course under the relentlessly cheerful supervision of their beloved drill sergeant, Miss Leah...
Khan, who is deciding between job offers from the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker, said she switched from History and Literature to English “because I wanted to do a creative thesis, and because I want to be a writer when I get out of here...