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...Kapor has emerged as a leading watchdog for freedom in the information age. He views the tiny bulletin-board systems as the forerunners of a public computer network that will eventually connect households across the country. Kapor is worried that legal precedents set today may haunt all Americans in the 21st century. Thus he is providing funds to fight for civil liberties in cyberspace the best way he knows how -- one case at a time...
...promote tribalism and downplay the value of discovering common cultural ground. The very idea of the melting pot, of assimilation, indeed of a common American identity, is under fire in some academic circles. Warns Diane Ravitch, adjunct professor of history and education at Columbia: "If we teach kids to connect themselves to one group defined by race or language or religion, then we have no basis for public education. We need to retain a sense of the common venture...
...Gradually I learned to enjoy Vietnam," Range adds. "It's a wonderful, beautiful country with some beautiful old French colonial architecture, wonderful food and wonderful people. But it takes you a while to connect with all that when at first you're hit in the face with all the poverty and with all the smells and with the country falling apart...
...system is implemented through the husc8 and husc9 paths of the HASCS system. Users enter the IRC system by typing "warirc" at the husc prompt. Then they enter one of the two forums by typing "/INFO" or "/DISCUSS", which connect the user with the information line and the discussion line, respectively...
...which sells for $1.95, still resembles a house organ more than a slick consumer magazine. It is packed with reporting on the politics of nuclear testing, firsthand accounts of Greenpeace nautical confrontations with the Soviets and surprisingly attractive graphics. But it suffers from an overreliance on unnamed and Greenpeace-connect ed sources for its allegations and opinions...