Word: interent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HELL trying to get into Moscow the week of May 1. Inter-Republic Highway 1 was backed up all the way from the Ukraine to Red Square with vehicles of all makes and models--squat black station wagons filled with screaming ice-cream besmeared Young Pioneers, squat black sedans driven by provincial head men, squat black vans with airbrushed scenes of the steppe at sunset painted under round tinted portals, and even a few squat black bicycles weaving their way through the stalled traffic...
...special assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Education, R.E. Baker, recently wrote a report tying bilingual education to communism and terrorism. Written for the Council for Inter American Security, the report, according to the New York Times, called bilingual education part of a plot to establish a separate Spanish nation within U.S. borders...
...course, new technology is always disconcerting, at least at first. At Chicago Kenworth, a heavy-truck dealer in suburban Markham, Ill., Accounting Clerk Luanna Domke shudders when she describes the arrival of the company's new Inter-Tel GX smart telephones earlier this month. Says Domke: "The first day, everyone was in a panic. People were saying, 'Oh, my God! What do I do with...
...initially traveling outward at nearly 10,000 miles per second. Since then the color of the supernova has been changing from blue to red much faster than expected. "That change is five to ten times faster than other supernovas," says Robert Williams, director of the U.S.-financed Cerro Tololo Inter-Observatory in Chile. This phenomenon indicates that the rapid expansion of the shell is causing it to cool, thus shifting the wavelength of the emitted light more deeply into the red end of the visible spectrum. Also surprising was 1987A's low luminosity. "If it had lived...
...remarkable interest in low-paying mission work seems to contradict studies indicating that high school and college graduates increasingly opt for high-status, high-paying jobs. But it is no surprise to the Rev. John Kyle of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship in Madison, Wis., which sponsors evangelical groups at 800 secular campuses. Every third year, Kyle's organization sponsors missionary conventions at the University of Illinois, where North American collegians gather to consider overseas work. At the last meeting, in 1984, 4,683 students filed written pledges that they would go overseas, and 10,153 more vowed to pray about...