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Best of Four

By: Carol Ann Ellis

...SED TO WAT CH Jose Canseco, Mark Mcguire, Nolan Ryan, and Lenny Dysktra on television. These men were my role models. They were my favorite athletes... ...he is also in charge of advising.” A semi-colon is used to join items in a series when those items contain commas within them as in “Professor Jimenez... ...o much to drink. I spent the entire day on the couch sleeping and watching television. I asked my dad why he had let me drink last night, and he told ... ... drunk. I thought he would look like the drunken people that I had seen on television and in the movies. I thought he would be falling off his bed and... ... be the biggest teen- sensation in the 1990s, like The Beatles were in the 1960s and 1970s. However, the Backstreet Boys could never be as influential... ...This album has more in common with a pack of baseball cards than the World Series; it’s over packaged, image-based fodder for kids that delivers a big... ...aze in the late 1950s, and they were mainly inspired by Elvis Presley. The 1960s were influenced heavily by The Beatles’ spirit, which was “celebrator... ...specially by the teenagers who find joy in murder. This also puts blame on American society because we are the ones who promote these types of movies ... ...metimes students assume that this is an example of having three items in a series that require commas. However, independent clauses fall outside of th...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ad, they wanted exactly one vendor to summon if something went wrong. By the 1960s, the company name was International Business Machines, and IBM dom... ...e power, of the generic mainframe. 7 A typical PC vendor was the opposite of 1960s IBM: it made available little more than a processor in a box, one i... ... $99 Timex/Sinclair Z-1000 or a $199 Texas Instruments TI-99/4A could use a television set as a display, and a standard audio cassette recorder to st... ...parties’ code. The box has mattered. The complex, expensive computers of the 1960s, cen- trally run and managed by a professional class, allowed for c... ... accounted for an estimated 80 percent of the world’s total e-mail. 59 North American PCs led the world in De- cember 2006, producing approximately 46... ...demics, social analysts, and industry leaders surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in 2004 predicted serious attacks on network infras... ...to a limited range of applications. For example, TiV o is greatly leveraging—television viewers describe its impact on their lives as rev- olutionary—... ...ted variations in performance have long been smoothed out in refrigerators, televisions, mobile phones, and automobiles. As for PCs, telling users th... ...o tinkering PC owners in their homes, had grown to include 20 percent of all Americans. Id. at 9. Among adult Internet users, meanwhile, 65 percent co...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...us and intelligent person has the intention to achieve a goal. He then engages in a series of absolutely random and unrelated actions, one of which ... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...Polar expedition), famine-stricken populations (Ukraine in the 1930s, China in the 1960s), and the like. Finally, in various pre-nation-state and t... ...h an independent copy of a book of instructions). The receiver can be passive (as television is). In such a case we will not be justified in sayin... ...n vitro fertilization to space travel. Every technology can be potentially abused. Television can be either a wonderful educational tool - or an a... ...man species be any different? Effects on Society Cloning - like the Internet, the television, the car, electricity, the telegraph, and the wheel b... ...e Encyclopaedia Britannica merely as a teacher. Yet for two important decades (the 1960s and the 1970s), Althusser was at the eye of all the import...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...us and intelligent person has the intention to achieve a goal. He then engages in a series of absolutely random and unrelated actions, one of which ... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...Polar expedition), famine-stricken populations (Ukraine in the 1930s, China in the 1960s), and the like. Finally, in various pre-nation-state and t... ...h an independent copy of a book of instructions). The receiver can be passive (as television is). In such a case we will not be justified in sayin... ...n vitro fertilization to space travel. Every technology can be potentially abused. Television can be either a wonderful educational tool - or an a... ...man species be any different? Effects on Society Cloning - like the Internet, the television, the car, electricity, the telegraph, and the wheel b... ...e Encyclopaedia Britannica merely as a teacher. Yet for two important decades (the 1960s and the 1970s), Althusser was at the eye of all the import...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. I recommend linking ... ...re is 10% and in Ireland – 3%. In each 5-year period only 25% of low paid Americans are in a poor family at some point (the figure is 10% in the UK)... ...mple, The Netherlands' "structural budget margin," developed in the early 1960s, and West Germany's "cyclically neutral budget," calculated by its G... ...udget," calculated by its German Council of Experts beginning in the late 1960s. Contract with the People of Macedonia We hereby declare that... ...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. We will link the siz... ...tterns of employment and unemployment irreversibly and globally. In this series of articles, I study this tectonic shift: employment and unemployme... ...be the outcome of the former. But as "The Economist" has pointed out in a series of "School Briefs", the world has been much more globalized one hun... ...immaculate quality of one's labor and produce? Both dead in the water. A series of earth-shattering social, economic, and technological trends conv... ...riodicals, and in the economic programs on various channels of Macedonian Television. Chief Lecturer in Macedonia in courses organized by the Agency...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ... government position for an acquaintance, produced a fascinating and lengthy series of comments on a new “Rudiments of English Grammar,” discussed the... ...er to have an intellectual property system is only the first choice in a long series. 13 Even if one believes that intellectual property is Thomas Jeff... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...ness plans relied upon showing movies in theaters and then licensing them to television stations. VCRs and Betamaxes fit nowhere in this plan; they wer... ...nt that it was a “fair use” under U.S. copyright law for consumers to record television programs for time-shifting purposes. Since fair The Internet T... ...s clearly disapproving, others would point out that book- stores, movies and television channels are filled with material on how to commit mur der...an... ... cook’s shop underground. 12 The art form is different, but the thought of a 1960s Cliff Richard or Ian An- derson being “cheered under a fit of the sp...

...s readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it were invented today, why most of 20th century culture is le...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...t have ever guessed. They offer access to an entertaining and informative series of examples of how the word and particularly the printed word have ... ...ter he conquered all the city-states in Mesopotamia, the king initiated a series of reforms to pave the way for a ―Golden Age of Babylon.‖ Hammu... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1... ...ightbulb 1880  Electricity distribution 1906–1919  Radio 1920s  Television 1930s (or sooner)  Punch cards to input and externally store ... ...—censored that accurate call until morning vote totals had confirmed it. 1960s  Integrated circuits replace transistors.  Plain-paper copying ma... ...e, Kemeny explained, ―Einstein wasn‘t very good at math.‖) Prior to the 1960s, one had to be able to write custom software in order to use a compu... ...of the twenty-first century:  Satellite TV gave people access on their television sets to real reporting of images and information on CNN, Al Jaz...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...he work to Argenbright Security. 13 The checkpoint featured closed-circuit television that recorded all passengers, including the hijackers, as they w... ...right Security. Like the check- points in Boston, it lacked closed-circuit television surveillance so there is no documentary evidence to indicate whe... ...Lee Hanson had heard a woman scream just before it cut off. He turned on a television, and in her home so did Louise Sweeney. Both then saw the second... ...ident, and the FBI’s domestic intelligence activities kept growing. In the 1960s, the FBI was receiving signif- icant assistance within the United Sta... ...ted over decades of experience with scores of hijackings, beginning in the 1960s. It taught flight crews that the best way to deal with hijackers was ... ...he cockpit in the event of an emergency. Even so, rules implemented in the 1960s required air crews to keep the cock- pit door closed and locked in fl...

...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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