Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reading period provides a more important opportunity than catching up on reading. The sheer amount of content and conceptual knowledge students are asked to synthesize in a semester is staggering. Reading period provides a chance for students to look back over the term, compile the vast body of knowledge they have been presented with and reach a new plateau of understanding...
Bill Gates wants to turn your PC into a full-purpose multimedia box. Win 98 users who shell out $100 for a TV add-in card can tune in to all the browser-based WebTV content Hollywood can produce--if Microsoft can persuade Hollywood to produce it. Also key: a new DVD driver that should make gaming hotter than ever...
...takes an agile mind to defend drunk driving and kids' smoking. Take the modest proposal to set the drunk-driving threshold at .08 blood-alcohol content nationwide--stricter than the .10 standard in 34 states. The liquor lobby long played on the fear that .08 would mean social drinkers who've had a few after work would all fail the Breathalizer. But research shows you can drink yourself silly before reaching .08: a 170-lb. man can guzzle four martinis inside an hour on an empty stomach before he gets there. He may not be sloppy drunk, but who wants...
...Burton, the evil of opening this particular Pandora's Box won't be ended by letting all the contents out. Hubbell and his attorney are upset that every minute of his private conversations -- genuinely personal moments included -- are about to enter the public domain. The ranking Democrat on Burton's committee, Henry Waxman, called for an inquiry into why his chairman "unilaterally subpoenaed these tapes, unilaterally released them and apparently unilaterally altered the content." Moral: Leaking snippets of tape can create a tangled web, as the Clintons already know...
...Dartboard are shocked, amused and visibly pleased. Quietly, a revolution is occurring and two major American magazines should be rethinking their idea to take the content to the people...