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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was in 1982 this is 1983, and the count has dropped to four. It's hard to find the right way to think about Garry Trudeau's decision not to draw. "Doonesbury" for the net three semesters. This generation of college students has no equivalent cultural tragedy to compare it to we weren't going to the movies when Shirley Temple turned into a teenager. We weren't reading magazines when Look and the old Lifefolded, we weren't going to rock concerts when the Beatles broke...
...Eagles came back and relentlessly turned the contest into an embarrassment for the Crimson, who carried a national top 10 ranking into the game. Tony Visone and Bob Starbuck added to the Harvard count but B.C.'s Monleon lifted the Eagles to double figures with two goals in the final...
...like you're from Missouri, and I want to sell you one of these beauties, 'cause you need it and 'cause you want it, no matter what you say. Deep in your all-American heart (you are American, aren't you, pal?), you crave this little honey, which will count for you and store for you and talk for you, and one day it might even kiss for you (no offense, miss). Point is, it will save you time. Time time time. And we need all the time we can save. Can't kill time without injuring eternity. Thoreau said...
...bonus: there are no penalties for wrong answers. The weight of the argument and the heat of the debate are what count now. And of all the people who have floated these questions into the cultural ozone?scientists and sociologists, computer freaks and microchip madmen, quick-buck artists and free-falling futurists?none has kept them aloft for so long, or turned them to such profitable purpose, as Steven Paul Jobs...
...sense, humans have been computing-manipulating and comparing numbers or anything that they may represent-since they first learned how to count, probably with pebbles (the word calculus stems from the Latin for stone). At least 2,500 years ago, the Chinese, among others, discovered that they could handle numbers more easily by sliding little beads on strings. Their invention, the abacus, is still...