Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Internet E-mail addresses of Net site visitors. These lists, critics argue, could soon be sold to the highest bidder --or even to government snoopers. "You'll go into a bulletin board that has an ad, and in a little bit of time, the manufacturer can start sending you junk mail," David Farber, a University of Pennsylvania computer science professor, told TIME Daily. The next step, Farber and others theorize, is a credit-card-like record of what you've bought over the Net and which political discussion groups you've perused. Web programmers, who never intended such consequences...
...junk mail is probably not that much different from most students. The piles of unopened envelopes in campus trash cans suggest that I'm not the only Harvard undergrad these credit card companies find so attractive...
...think there's a boundary between what's art and what's junk," she continued. "Twenty-five dollars worth of plastic is junk. That whole exhibit was a fraud...
...loci of medical interest are where the DNA should be the same between everyone, only changing with disease," Bloom says. "Police are looking for the ones that change like mad, the parts that are known as 'junk DNA' by most scientists. The other part of the answer is that it's not cost effective to do millions of tests...
...early '80s came the second British invasion (the first, the Stones and Beatles), but this event was more an infection than an invasion, led by junk-pop groups such as Duran Duran and Haircut 100. R.E.M., whose oblique songs dealt with provocative topics like Bible-thumping televangelists and complaints about American imperialism, provided an alternative to the British sludge that was washing up on U.S. shores. The band received little early support from radio or MTV, but by touring college towns and playing small clubs it steadily built a base of loyal fans. Its 1983 debut album, Murmur, sold more...