Word: dyson
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...middle-aged member (preferably male) of corporate America yearning for a comprehensive guidebook to the conceptual foundations of the Internet and its seemingly interminable resources? Do you want to read about the lurid past of the Net and discern the direction of its evolution? If so, then Esther Dyson '72 has written a new Bible for you, alluringly entitled Release 2.0, A Design for Living in the Digital...
Under the guiding narrative of Dyson, once called "the most powerful woman in the Net-erati" by the New York Times Magazine, this glossy volume carries the reader through 11 chapters brimming with anecdotal evidence of the author's familiarity with the innermost workings of cyberspace, both as we know it and as Dyson predicts it shall be. Subjects range from the structure of the Net and its usefulness in binding citizens into communities, to the ever-present dilemma of governance and regulation within the electronic realm...
Other featured speakers include Michael Eric Dyson, a University of North Carolina professor and author of the recently-released Between God and Gangsta Rap, and Dream Hampton, editor-in-chief of the magazine Rap Pages...
...Marv Dyson, president of WGCI, a popular black-oriented radio station in the city, first read about Girl X in a local black newspaper. "She had been forgotten by the mass media," Dyson says. "It's not a big story. This kind of thing goes on in housing projects all over the country." Only as some local community and church leaders got involved and Louis Farrakhan came to pray at her bedside did Girl X's plight come to the attention of the mainstream Chicago press. "The Cabrini-Green rape would be widely known had the victim been white," wrote...
Station WGCI parked a mobile studio outside Children's Memorial Hospital, where Girl X remains, and Dyson launched a 16-hour, on-air fund-raising drive that along with other efforts has yielded a staggering $200,000. The proceeds will go toward the child's medical expenses. Girl X, meanwhile, is conscious but unable to speak. So far, police say, they have no suspects...