Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...participants spanned a 32-year age difference, they had been seasoned by years at prestigious publications and government agencies and they no longer sat according to their politics...
...announcing Blair's selection, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson said, "I am honored to award this fellowship to Ann Blair. We often think of ourselves as living in the world's 'information age.' However, Ann's work demonstrates that compiling and organizing important knowledge has been with us for centuries...
...this final column, indulge me as I turn to a bigger frame than a particular innovation or trend. The question is, how do we view technological change in our society; more specifically, do we even bother to view the Information Age in a critical light...
...course, the occasional "dark side" of technology peeks through the panegyric every now and then. But stories of Internet addiction and chat-room sexual misrepresentation tend to titillate rather than criticize. The advent of the Information Age is, in many ways, taken as an unqualified good for America and the world...
While critics like Noam Chomsky have labeled Paglia as reactionary, Paglia's position on social issues give them pause. She is strongly pro-choice, strongly pro-pornography ("I've made an extensive study," she told the audience,) and favors abolishing age-of-consent laws governing sexual relationships...