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...must have intensified because of casual use on the Internet, right? I don't really think so. The thing is, people do use this word all the time. The fact that before the Internet you weren't necessarily exposed to it doesn't mean it wasn't out there...
...vaccine may contain a much smaller dosage than stated, or it may lack any active ingredient whatsoever. Worst of all, it could be toxic. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 50% of drugs sold online have either been falsified or altered in some way. And Internet sales are just the tip of a much bigger problem. Falsified medicines are especially prevalent in developing countries; the WHO estimates that up to 30% of drugs sold in parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America are fake, including ones used to fight diseases like malaria and tuberculosis...
This network reached a quarter of a million students through the Internet, which was 5% of the online market at the time, and newspaper publications ran for 11 weeks and reached 13 million readers. SitesALIVE! was the first online interactive learning experience at the time of its creation...
...pages), is an example of what you might call iPod lit--Arthur Phillips' The Song Is You would be another--novels that meditate on the paradoxical mixture of intimacy and estrangement that arises from listening to digitally recorded music, or really from any human interaction mediated by the Internet. In the case of Juliet, Naked, the music is by Tucker Crowe, a legendary (fictional) singer-songwriter who was last heard from in 1986 but who still has rabid online followers who endlessly dissect his recordings on message boards. Sort of like Elliott Smith, if he'd disappeared instead of died...
...though it hasn't been censored before, it's not the first time it has stirred controversy. As an adult, Shield went to court to try to block further use of the photo but lost. It has since been reprinted around the world and is widely available on the Internet. (Read TIME's 1981 cover story on Brooke Shields...