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...Everyone is very excited that Harvard is moving assertively toward the use of more digital content," says Nancy Cline, Larsen librarian of Harvard College and the chair of the LDI steering committee. "It's almost like exploring a new frontier in digital information...
...official position statement released lastweek, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), anInternet advocacy group, also criticized theproposal for lacking due process and free speechprotections. As ICANN would be a private entityrather than a government contractor, EFF argued,groups or corporations denied domain names wouldhave little recourse. Dyson is a board member ofEFF as well as the new corporation...
...people call it the last frontier," says Woody, 55, a retired truck driver, after a cooldown in his outdoor bathtub. While Woody dunked his derriere, fellow resident Linda Barnett, under a military camouflage net, delivered the nightly CB broadcast of camp doings and items for sale or barter...
...make that leap, there's another way to invest in the Net that I call the Forty-Niner strategy. If you don't want to lend your money to gold prospectors, invest in the companies that sell them shovels and pans. On the wired frontier, those firms include Cisco and Lucent, which are building much of the Net's physical infrastructure of routers and switches...
...Tibetans and other non-Chinese ethnic minorities clinging determinedly to their traditions on their red-brown earth--have been relatively late in embracing tourism. Stretches of the area are closed to foreign travelers. Zhongdian, the town which I am currently exploring, still has a rough-hewn, construction-made frontier feel, and Degen was opened up to foreigners less than a year ago. Through the long days of riding rickety minibuses whose doors are kept shut with screwdrivers, my excitement would rise with the knowledge that I probably wouldn't see another foreigner until I arrived at my special "foreigners-allowed...