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This is one of the critical points that Noah Oppenheim fails to address in his piece on April 25, "Coming out to Applause." Oppenheim argues that the network's decision to have Ellen DeGeneres openly state her homosexuality in an upcoming episode of "Ellen" is not a significant marker in the struggle for public acceptance of homosexuality. Oppenheim claims that television does not influence society; instead he insists that "to the extent that television has any significance whatsoever, the idea that television reflects society is far more convincing...
...FAGGOT!" was written in black marker next to the House Crew notice board. On another wall, the words "FAG," "PUSSY!," and "Mother-fucker" were scribled...
...time of the end, apparently, was last week. A recently posted "Red Alert" announcement on the group's Website hailed the Hale-Bopp comet as the "marker" the members were waiting for. In this belief, at least, Heaven's Gate cultists were not alone. According to a popular theory circulating on the Internet, a spaceship is hidden behind the comet--whether inhabited by benign or evil aliens is unclear. Astronomers say the image behind the comet in some photographs is a mere star...
...physical container or body," they wrote. "We will rendezvous in the 'clouds' (a giant mothership) for our briefing and journey to the Kingdom of the Literal Heavens." Members believed that the Hale-Bopp comet, which visited Earth last week for the first time in 2,400 years, was a "marker" that the mothership had come to free them from the "Human Evolutionary Level." This was the time...
What is commonly referred to in corporate technology lingo as the "Year 2000 problem" arises from the fact that many mainframe computer systems use a two-digit date marker for the year, with the assumption that the first two digits are one and nine. When the year 2000 comes around, thousands of computers will think that 00 means...