Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CYBERspace" was supposed to be a round-the-clock, planet-spanning online party, a feel-good cyberfest celebrating the paradigm-shifting possibilities of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Smolan, the photographer and entrepreneur behind the hugely successful Day in the Life series of photo books that document everyday life in Spain, Japan, Australia, the U.S.S.R. and the U.S., hoped to do the same for the growing world of interconnected computers...
...thanks to coincidence--and a turn of political events--the 24 hours Smolan chose to document were anything but a celebration. They fell on the very day last week that President Clinton signed a telecommunications bill, which contains easily the most reviled piece of legislation in cyberspace, the Communications Decency Act. The law imposes stiff penalties for posting or transmitting "indecent" material online--a provision that strips from online communications the First Amendment guarantees that protect the written and spoken word...
...style, the two heads of this campaign's bitterest rivalry are not so much fire and ice as ice and ice. Businesslike but affable, Reed, 35, is efficiency personified. His desk is so meticulously organized that he can pinpoint an individual document in the stacks of neatly piled papers. Pale and intense, Dal Col, 39, resembles a 15th century monk in a Renaissance painting. Yes, he too is efficient ("Both Scott and I make lists of lists," he says), but Dal Col is strung a little tighter. "He never loses his temper," Dal Col says of Reed. "I sometimes blow...
...will continue to use the Common Application as our base document, and we are pleased to note that a number of other colleges have joined the Common Application Group. Cutting down on unnecessary red tape and making the college application process more accessible to students and their families benefits everyone, as well as higher education itself...
...includes not only sexually explicit material but also four-letter words and sexual material deemed "patently offensive" by local community standards. Under this standard, anything ranging from pornographic animation to a frank discussion of AIDS could be construed as indecent and draw the fire of federal prosecutors. Ironically, any document which explicitly describes what the new law prohibits would be theoretically banned from the Internet. We urge all to think of what this means for freedom of speech and the marketplace of ideas...