Thursday, April 15, 2004
World
Sunny Side Up?
Rethinking our political fixation on the bright side of life.
Life
The Subway That Started It All
Amid the daily scrum of the New York City subway, few ever go looking for the past. But this being the subway's centennial year, Joseph Brennan and Joseph Cunningham, a pair of transit buffs, agreed the other day to lead a small band in search of the original 1904 subway.
A Writer Carries On His Father's Legacy Of Poetry And Pain
Franz Wright, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is haunted by his father, who was also a prize-winning poet who struggled with alcohol and depression.
Call Me E-Mail: The Novel Unfolds Digitally
As the epistolary novel comes of digital age, a new literature captures the primal urge behind instant-message patter.
Expressions
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@ Issue: Long Code For A Small Symbol
The French say petit escargot; the Dutch call it a monkey's tail. On a qwerty keyboard, it's Shift-2. And next month, amateur radio enthusiasts will call it dit-dah-dah-dit-dah-dit. That is when the symbol @ officially becomes the newest character in the Morse code.