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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children were paralyzed by polio, and it tapered off in the early '60s, after the Salk vaccine and then the Sabin oral version were introduced. The first wave of postpolio symptoms appeared in the early 1980s, 30 years after the epidemic's peak, and if researchers are correct, the last wave should subside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reliving Polio | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...must admit that in purely technical matters, Liu's research is adequate. His summary of how Clipper physically functions is correct. The government's encryption system will now individuals to send coded messages to one another, lending a substantial degree of protection from the intrusion of other private entities. Only a few law enforcement agencies would be able to break into these coded communications. The purpose of the project is to ensure that computer-literate criminals won't be able to conceal their data-trails with vast, "un-crackable" codes of their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clipper Will Help Fight Crime | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...point of that was to realize that if youcan't do that simple task correctly." Armon said."When you are retelling a story, how certain canyou be are describing it in a correct...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Mediators Begin Training Process | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

Once the content of speech can be monitored by thought-police who delineate "standards of sensitivity" for speech, there may be no stopping the slippery slope towards intellectual tyranny. What was perhaps the most intellectually alienating feature of the politically correct movement was that, in attempting to define the acceptable vocabulary of political discourse, it led to the negation of discourse. From the Sedition Act of 1798, to the McCarthy era to the PC-movement, to Harvard Law's speech codes, censorship is a dangerous threat to liberty...

Author: By Gil B. Lahav, | Title: Say No To Speech Codes | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...friend just sent me a copy of your March 7 feature article "Student Journal Ceases to Shock: The Peninsula No Longer Influences," for which I was interviewed by the article's author. Please permit me to correct some of the factual claims and challenge the central thesis of the article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Calm Before Peninsula's Storm | 3/19/1994 | See Source »

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