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Think history can provide easy solutions? Think again. Our distant ancestors sometimes dealt with romantic disappointment by leaving home to become monks and nuns. More recent generations would phone their exes dozens of times and hang up immediately. The decline of convents and the advent of caller ID have eradicated both of these time-honored traditions, so you’ll have to look in a different direction...
...Napster's heyday, pirated TV shows were a rarity on the Net. But that changed with the advent of broadband home connections, $40 TV tuner cards that snap into your PC and cheap ways to store data. Looking for episodes of Friends? The MPAA counted more than 5,000 locations on the Internet last year where people could download episodes for free. Using custom software to track copyright violations, it also found 4,000 sites for The Simpsons and 2,000 for The Sopranos. Big Pussy is not going to like that...
...What she soon learned was that the kind of cancer she had?a group of malignancies so tiny that they were rarely seen before the advent of mammograms powerful enough to spot them?is at the heart of a raging debate in the cancer community. Doctors know what to do when they find tumors the size of marbles or plums. That's what surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are for. But what do you do with cancers the size of pencil points? Do you treat them as you would a massive tumor? Do you leave them alone? Should you even...
This growing invasiveness is not confined to the restroom. With the advent of broadband Internet access, banner website ads have evolved into full audio, moving picture “commercials” that engulf your computer screen, if only for several seconds. I thought that part of the Internet’s appeal was the websurfer’s ability to bypass things like commercial interruptions. Of course, these new digital “advances” are in addition to those incessant pop-up ads and “spam” e-mails we’ve already...
...campaign finance reform bill will also cause power shifts in the American political system. For starters "it will roll things back to the type of campaign finance system that was always intended before the advent of soft money," explains Anthony Corrado, a Colby College professor who's written extensively on the history of campaign finance reform. Because they can't simply donate huge sums to the two parties, corporations, labor unions and multi-millionaires will now have a more difficult time buying unlimited influence...