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...start to adjust somewhere that I speak to myself in the language of that place." Rubbens belongs to a distinct class of young Europeans: mobile, multilingual professionals who live, work and play outside their native countries and who bounce across borders - for business or pleasure. To be sure, the advent of such transplants is far from widespread: in 1999, fewer than 2% of E.U. citizens aged 21 to 35 worked in other E.U. countries. But those who do find their sense of belonging transformed. Swiss-born Alexandre Stucki, 28, a European equities fund manager in London, travels twice a week...
...advent of the Internet also transformed how phone companies move messages in a way that made Cisco the networking king. Traditional voice phone systems are circuit switched, meaning that a call opens a dedicated line between the parties that outsiders can't share. But data traffic is packet switched: messages are broken into discrete units, or packets, that share their lines with the packets of other users, greatly increasing the speed and volume of the data sent. It's mass transit for data. Moreover, packets can take different paths to their destinations, which is where Cisco's routers come...
...Monkees also presaged the advent of country rock, notably in Mike Nesmith's compositions and their wonderful cover of Michael Murphy's deceptively simple-sounding "What Am I Doing Hanging 'Round?" There are also ample pleasures to be derived from lesser-known songs; the Monkees came from the era when albums were supposed to be more than just filler to put around singles, and for the most part they delivered...
...some reason, the advent of the talkies in 1929 threatened the guardians of American morality more than anything that had gone before, and pressure on the studios began to build until Code compliance became standard in 1934. The self-censorship mechanism was in place, and it dominated major U.S. releases without exception until 1953, when Otto Preminger used the word "virgin" in "The Moon Is Blue" and got away with it. Even David O. Selznick had to beg Hayes Office approval for the final "I don't give a damn" in "Gone With the Wind." The Code insured that...
According to Associate Dean for Faculty Development Laura G. Fisher, the faculty began to feel a crunch with the advent of the Core Curriculum in the late...