Word: alienate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More compelling was a discovery at nearby research lab Lawrence Berkeley, where an outsider apparently slipped into a restricted system, set up a secret file server and loaded it with thousands of dollars' worth of stolen software - like Power Japanese (retail: $395) and the unreleased game Alien Legacy - the L.A. Times found. But if these pirate locations are so secret, how do Net users ever find them? Through Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels that span the Net and elude all but the most determined federal investigators...
...Governors of California, Florida and Arizona, whose states are suing the Federal Government over costs of immigration, went to Capitol Hill to press the Senate Appropriations Committee for reimbursement of expenses their states incur dealing with their large illegal-alien populations...
Born with a malfunctioning liver, Benny underwent his first transplant at age 8. For five years, he took a drug called cyclosporin that prevented his body from rejecting the alien organ. When that medicine no longer worked, his doctors at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh performed a second transplant in 1992 and started him on what was then an experimental treatment called FK506. Given his long experience, he was probably better prepared than most people for the pain and discomfort antirejection drugs can sometimes cause. He had already outlived most of the children he had met in the hospital while...
...came to accept the possibility of alien life in 1990 after meeting and speaking with Budd Hopkins, a New York artist who has published a bestselling book, Intruders, about alien kidnappings...
...impossible for me to see my city through the eyes of someone who hasn't lived here since birth. I've never be west to Buffalo; I can't imagine that the world extends beyond the Connecticut River and that someone from that alien land would actually choose to live here...