Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Captain Midnight's much publicized stunt threw a fright into the communications world. If TV programming could be disrupted, industry executives warned, so could the sensitive data transmissions of business, Government and the military. Although HBO and other broadcasters say they have taken precautions to prevent future disruptions, they were...
Granted that the government has a right to interfere if anyone is being injured or coerced, the history of official efforts to regulate sex is a long and fairly unhappy one. Both sides invoked it in the sodomy case. "Condemnation of those practices is firmly rooted in Judeo-Christian moral...
Supporters of gay rights quite naturally criticize the court's decision, but there is a more fundamental point in Justice Blackmun's dissent. "A necessary corollary of giving individuals freedom to choose how to conduct their lives is acceptance of the fact that different individuals will make different choices," he...
The discussion demonstrated that important factions of the Democratic Party are now willing to confront the topic of the underclass and think it could work to their political advantage. "If we approach the social question correctly," Cuomo noted, "we will seize the opportunity Reagan has given us." A common theme...
Computers are also being used to create entire images from scratch. For effects like the stained-glass man in Young Sherlock Holmes, all the visual elements of the figure--size, shape and surface characteristics--are fed into a computer, along with such data as camera angles and light sources. The...