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Eight seniors were awarded scholarships yesterday which will enable them to study abroad in places ranging from England and South Africa to Senegal and Mongolia...
...where coarse language is strictly regulated. The bill would hold expression on the Net to the same standards of purity, using far harsher criminal sanctions--including jail terms--to enforce them. Moreover, it would attempt to impose those standards on every human who communicates electronically, whether in Memphis or Mongolia. Sounds crazy, but it's true...
Dinosaur babies figure prominently in The Lost World, just as they do in much current paleontological research. The recent discovery of a number of well-preserved dino nests in the western U.S. and Mongolia has convinced scientists that the terrible lizards were actually nurturing parents, watching lovingly over their hatchlings and bringing them tidbits of food, like robins tending their chicks. Crichton's creatures do the same, to the horror of at least one tidbit...
Little by little, the world is getting wired. Despite some big bare spots in middle Africa, Mongolia and the real Siberia (as opposed to the Cyberia Cafe), PCs and their attendant modems are knitting together the global village just as Marshall McLuhan predicted. While no country is as well connected as the U.S., with 32 PCs per 100 citizens, Europe and Asia are coming up fast. Among the reasons are the privatization of industry, which is breaking the stranglehold of government telecommunications monopolies, and the recognition by political leaders of the vital importance of getting up to speed...
...Virginia, to become the next Seattle. Lead singer-songwriter Dave Matthews, a hobby painter and self-proclaimed mamma's boy, harbors no Eddie Vedder-ish loathing of fame, though. "I'm grateful as hell. I wouldn't mind people knowing our songs in Tahiti," says Matthews, "or even Outer Mongolia...