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...military families eligible for food stamps have six members or more. The Pentagon has no desire to encourage bigger families by linking pay to procreation. "It's regrettable that people in the military do qualify for food stamps," Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon says, "but it's more a function of their family size than of military...
...Duchamp, father of Dada and first to insist that "the viewer completes the work of art." Their process was Duchampian in intent and radical in form: they created art objects from everyday objects and performance pieces from everyday events, decontextualizing those elements and thereby giving the piece a new function within the aesthetic space of the gallery. Often they rejected the confines of the gallery space altogether. Watts's and Kaprow's objects range from industrial plastics to balls of yarn to stamp machines, recalling Duchamp's ready-mades nearly 50 years earlier. But, while Dada posited itself in rabid...
...Sunday's march served the essential function of increasing the visibility of equal rights issues in our society, but much remains to be done. It is now up to Congress and the Supreme Court to help the marchers accomplish their goal of achieving equality and peaceful coexistence in American society...
Decisions about representation on the Trust and the grants process are important indicators of how the Trust will function in the future. The group--which is effectively replacing RUS as a funding source--will have nearly $20,000 to dole out next year to student groups with an interest in women's issues...
...breakup is not only to create multiple competing operating systems, but to reduce the possibility that future software companies will be able to build a similar monopoly. The suit was designed to prevent Microsoft domination of "middleware" like Java and Netscape. Middleware allows software developers to write programs that function equally across different operating systems, making an operating system itself less relevant. After the breakup, the applications portion of Microsoft would have incentives for compatibility with as many platforms as possible. Linux (a Unix-like operating system) would become a much more viable operating system if a Linux version...