Long queues, delayed flights and overcrowding at airports have become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.
1 The college campus, long a place of scholarship and frontiers of new technology, is being trans formed into a new age of electronics by a fleet of laptops, smartphones and connectivity 24 hours a day.
Imagine boating down the Amazon River, minding your own business, calmly keeping an eye out for alarmingly large snakes, and a curious pink dolphin appears to swim alongside.