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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Almost 60 courses use the newsgroups for announcements, discussion and homework assignments, and many will agree that these newsgroups have helped facilitate discussion and improve the overall course. One no longer needs to attend several courses during shopping period simply to obtain syllabi, since many of them are now available online...

Author: By Eugene Kim, | Title: ON TECHNOLOGY | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...corner shopkeeper well enough to cash a personal check. The ATM changed all that, using a fusion of computer chips, telepad, phone line and dispensing mechanism to transform the way people access their money. Armed with only a plastic card and a functioning index finger, a customer can now obtain cash as easily in Tierra del Fuego as in downtown Tulsa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

Representatives from the magazine were on campus throughout last week trying to obtain information about and a photo of the president...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Rudenstine Will Appear on Cover Of Newsweek | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

...Bombay, but after a crackdown it spread to other areas, specifically the Madras suburb of Villivakkam, popularly known as ``Kidneyvakkam.'' Several thousand people living in abject poverty in Villivakkam have sold their kidneys. In a typical instance, Rani Saravanan said she had decided to have a kidney removed to obtain cash to feed her family and pay debts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN ABOMINABLE TRADE | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

These days, The Jerky Boys' managers make follow-up trips to the businesses they crank in order to obtain release forms for use of the material on their albums. Most of Brennan and Kamal's "victims" acquiesce when they hear the tape of their conversation with a Jerky Boy. Many of the targets appreciate the hilarity of their little chats; others see a chance at five minutes of recorded fame...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Jerky Boys Called on Their Pranks | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

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