Word: equalate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bottle glasses and a pocket protector who speaks Klingon, guess again. A study presented to the British Psychological Society Tuesday claims that the new archetype of the hard-core user is much older -- and a woman. According to Dr. Helen Petrie, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, roughly equal numbers of men and women from among the 445 individuals surveyed identified themselves as addicts, but women "seemed to be more addicted to the Net than men were. They showed more positive feelings about using the Net and higher usage of the Net than...
...mainly interested in raising the quality of house computing across campus, and making each house as equal as possible," Osterberg says. "We try to give each House lab seven Mac or PC computers, as well as a laser printer...
...because the Houses are of different sizes, numerically equal computer facilities may mean crowding in some Houses and easy computer access in others...
Osterberg acknowledges that different ratios of students to computers are a problem, but says, "Sure, [Pforzheimer] is the smallest house on campus, but it's also the farthest away from the Science Center. The best thing we can do is to just make everything equal. The Houses are all communities, and it's just better to have them all have equal facilities...
...After seeing friends and lovers die a protracted death, Sullivan claims that homosexual men refuse to let such suffering be for naught. He claims, in short, that AIDS has provided an impetus to the movement for gay rights. Much of the book, in fact, discusses the struggle to obtain equal rights for gays. Sullivan personally makes an impassioned argument for the recognition of gay marriage. He also presents a comprehensive survey of different theories on the genesis of homosexuality that, in spanning Freud to modern psychologists, address the nature versus nurture debate head...