Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...someone--anyone--else, probably at school. But schools and libraries stake a claim on too little of the child's time, and inescapable First Amendment issues make it unlikely that any public agency will be or should be able to play an effective role in controlling Net access and content. That can happen only at home. One family may respond to the Web's enticements by disconnecting the phone line; another may simply make them a regular topic of dinner conversation. And because we're each entitled to cleave to our own parenting ideology, both would be right...
ESPP claims that the course will return next year without Adelson and Perlman; they frame this event as just another case of regular turnover on the teaching staff. But beyond the obvious differences in content and quality that different professors would bring, we doubt that anything resembling Conservation Biology and Biodiversity could be taught by anyone but Perlman and Adelson. Junior Faculty have no incentive to invest the enormous time and energy such a course requires when it takes them away from the publishing that will garner them tenure; Senior Faculty have no incentive to leave their research and spend...
...afternoon consisted of four "Rap Sessions" or panel discussions and a keynote speech by KRS- One, Ostensibly the interchange at the Rap Sessions was to focus on educating audience members about the music industry while structuring discussion topics on the content and constituency of hip hop. Artists, producers, decjays, journalists, executives, lawyers and other insiders sat on four panels. Each session was moderated by Dahni-el Giles '99, Caille Millner '01, Baratunde Thurston '99 and Jason Phillips...
Although Maher and DePoe say they will probably retreat to aboveground performance spaces when their reputations grow, at the moment they seem perfectly content...
...funny thing about the Web as a medium is that it's always been plagued by too much content, rather than too little. A now-infamous report issued last summer by the NEC Research Institute announced that for all their inflated stock prices, the major search engines were only covering at best a fraction of the Web. Forrester Research estimates the size of the web at 500-600 million pages; AltaVista, which claims to index the most pages of any major search engine, only covers 150 million. The best bet, the report stated, may be search engines like Metacrawler, which...