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The Upgrade Conundrum.

Commentator Steven Levy, columnist for Newsweek, considers the decision to upgrade or not.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, August 16, 1995: Interview with Spalding Gray; Interview with Sharon Schwartz; Commentary on upgrading computer technology.
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Spalding Gray's Adventures on the Fringes of Alternative Medicine.

Monologist, actor and writer Spalding Gray. He's written and performed several monologues including, "Monster in a Box" about all the distractions that prevented him from completing his novel, Impossible Vacation, and Swimming to Cambodia about filming a movie in Cambodia. Now Gray has a new monologue and book about his eye problems, and his adventures in the mainstream and alternative health care industries. It's called Gray's Anatomy. (Vintage Books).

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Novelist Lynne Sharon Schwartz.

Novelist Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Her new novel is The Fatigue Artist, (Scribner) about a 40 year old woman who comes down with chronic fatigue syndrome. One reviewer calls it "witty and hopeful and fierce." Schwartz is also the author of Disturbances in the Field, and Leaving Brooklyn.

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Human vs. Computer.

Steven Levy recounts the dramatic battle between world chess champion Garry Kasparov and the cutting edge chess program "Deep Blue."

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