From: David Erdody <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ASSISTIVE MEDIA APRIL 98 ISSUE



Assistive Media is a non-profit entity that produces on-line audio
recordings of literary works for persons with visual limitations.

http://www.assistivemedia.org

APRIL 98 features are

ANNALS OF POPULAR CULTURE: BURIED ALIVE
Our children and the avalanche of crud.
BY DAVID DENBY
=A9 1996 The New Yorker Magazine
read by Matthew Camp
total time: 45 minutes=20

PERSONAL HISTORY: LOSING SIGHT
by HENRY GRUNWALD
=A9 1996 The New Yorker Magazine
read by David Erdody
total time: 23 minutes=20

PROFILE: THE LAST ITALIAN TENOR
BY DAVID REMNICK
=A9 1993 The New Yorker Magazine
read by Allan Young
total time: 44 minutes=20

2001 Double Take
The HAL 9000 computer - an artificial intelligence that could think,
talk, see,
feel, and occasionally go berserk - was supposed to be operational in
January
1997. Has anyone seen HAL?
By Simon Garfinkel
=A9 1997 WIRED Magazine
read by David Erdody
total time: 35 minutes=20

A REPORTER AT LARGE: KID, TWELVE
Who are the forgotten voters? People like Brian Tomberlind's family
aren't on
welfare, and don't live below the poverty line. But they are still
struggling
Americans. What does life look like to Brian?
BY SUSAN SHEEHAN
=A9 1996 The New Yorker Magazine
read by Ingrid Eggertsen
total time 50 minutes:=A0=20

LETTER FROM TOKYO: NERVE GAS AND THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
The trial of a blind Buddhist prophet for the nerve-gas attack in the
Tokyo
subway is testing a fragile democracy and leaving Japan to wonder how he
built his movement among the nation's brightest people.
BY MURRAY SAYLE
=A9 1996 The New Yorker Magazine
read by David Erdody
total time 82 minutes:=A0=20

Cracking Wall Street
Suppose you could discern market trends, speed up time to see where
those
trends were going, then make a bet on what you discovered. That's how
geeks
in suits -- known as rocket scientists -- are raking it in now.
by Kevin Kelly
=A9 1996 WIRED Magazine
read by David Erdody
total time: 42 minutes=20

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