Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ITHACA, N.Y.--A rogue computer program created by a former Harvard undergraduate that crippled a nation-wide computer network last fall was neither the creation of a genius nor the act of a criminal, a Cornell University commission has concluded...
...simply have been the unfocused intellectual meanderings of a hacker completely absorbed with his creation and unharnessed by considerations of explicit purpose or potential effect," the panel wrote...
...position toward the Palestinian cause did not begin with the creation of the P.L.O. We believe Israel has aspirations beyond Palestinian territory. Israel aspires to the establishment of a state from the Nile to the Euphrates...
...with ultra-Orthodox religious parties. The price would have been high: giving the fanatic religious groups exclusive power over the religious conversion of immigrants to Israel. By implication, the legitimacy of Conservative and Reform Jews would have been undermined. Outraged protests from abroad helped torpedo that idea and forced creation of another inaptly named "unity" government joining Likud and Labor. It also made it easier for Diaspora Jews to vent their unease over other issues. Says Alexander Schindler, head of the U.S. Reform movement: "The 'who-is-a-Jew' issue gave license for many to express their cumulative distress...
...that none of the long-term peace options that either Shamir or the Palestinian leadership considers acceptable have any chance to succeed. The scholars argued that moving beyond the status quo requires a long process of mutual accommodation starting with direct talks with the P.L.O. and possibly ending with creation of a circumscribed Palestinian state...