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Saunders, who said that he has heard rumors of the show being called "a back-flip on top of a dildo," added that it provokes "interesting and powerful conversations...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Performer Charges Censorship | 5/7/1997 | See Source »

...Telephones. Why does it cost more than $20 to flip a switch and turn on a phone line at the beginning of every year, in every dorm room? The Student Telephone Office bleeds thousands of dollars a year this way from students who cannot afford...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: What Needs to Be Done | 4/25/1997 | See Source »

...result was that most people in Hong Kong now tend to identify growth in China with security in Hong Kong. This view, of course, has an inevitable flip side for the public. Calls for democracy, individual freedom and civil rights risk being labeled "uncooperative" or "subversion" to smooth transition, because it seeks to bring the whole issue of "One Country, Two Systems" and self-government into practical, negociable terms as opposed to the more abstract talk in earlier years...

Author: By Kit Mui, | Title: After '97, A Greater China | 4/16/1997 | See Source »

...system is that the ratings are displayed only for the first 30 seconds of the program. Although this may work for movies, when everyone gets to the theatre at the beginning, it is significantly less helpful for television shows, when people have the propensity to channel-surf and flip on the television in the middle of a program. If a kid had the savvy to turn on the television at 35 minutes after the hour, the ratings would be gone and he or she would reap the benefits of rating-less television...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: Not Enough Control | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...reading "Does Heaven Exist?" I am a devout Christian, and I don't give much thought to heaven. My spirituality isn't based on an anthropomorphic, kick-butt God who will throw four generations of children into eternal damnation because some distant forefather ticked him off. Heaven is the flip side of the absolutely barbaric notion of hell that evolved under that kick-butt mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 14, 1997 | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

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