Word: frees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stating the following: there is no "Good Times" virus. Microsoft and AOL are not "teaming up" to conduct any kind of survey. The Postal Service is not about to charge 5[cents] for every e-mail. Deodorants do not cause breast cancer. M&M's will not give you free candy, nor will the Gap send you a free pair of jeans, nor will Honda drive a brand-new Civic to your front door if you pass on "their" messages...
Take the case of Joanne Holderman, a smart, fiftysomething community volunteer and AOL user in Santa Barbara, Calif. Last month she received mail from an official-looking AOL address offering a month's free service to make up for recent difficulties with her phone line. All she had to do was "log on"--that is, reply with her username and password. She duly did so. The next weekend she started getting angry notes from strangers, demanding that she stop sending them pornography...
...jazz go? It's a music of all soul and no limits, but there are, at some times and in some hands, certain arbitrary restrictions. Free form is fine, but the more precise disciplines of melody and orchestration can lead to suspicions of musical conservatism, even retrogression. Yet jazz can--and should--go anywhere, as long as the direction's not conventional, and there is no one better than Charlie Haden at taking an old road to a brand-new place...
...1970s, when access to computers was limited and expensive, Michael Hart's pals at the University of Illinois computer lab gave him what amounted to $100 million worth of free computer time. Hart, son of a Shakespeare professor and a mathematician, decided to harness the new technology to humanistic ends by posting a copy of the Declaration of Independence that anyone with a computer and a modem could read for free...
Hart, 52, who never finished grad school, runs the site from his Urbana home, adding 30 to 40 books a week. Next he hopes to start entering works of art and music. Hart contends that free books over the Internet will shake up civilization in the 21st century even more than Johannes Gutenberg's movable type did in the 15th. "Democracy," he says, "is dependent on people knowing enough to make a choice...