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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After one question from the floor about what would prevent people in academia from "selling their body of knowledge to the highest bidder" the motion passed with only two people opposing...
...Department of Afro-American Studies has been without a Ph.D program since its creation in 1969. Similar interdisciplinary Ph.D programs to the one newly-created at Harvard exist at Yale and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst...
...David: This is a "Fuck the Bullshit" button. Kamil is also sporting one of these little things...
...Nobody has reported any adverse effects from irradiation," says TIME science writer Frederic Golden. And given the abandon with which America has embraced its microwave ovens, one could be forgiven for underestimating the public outcry that greeted the idea of irradiation several years ago. The meat industry, which will invest huge sums creating the infrastructure necessary for irradiation, is hoping Americans have gotten over their fear of treated meat. "Unlike the so-called Frankenfoods, which involve genetic alterations, irradiation is pretty standard stuff," says Golden. And, he adds, zapping meat is, ostensibly, a public health measure. Issues of safety aside...
...cyberspace, no one can hear you scream - but they can figure out who you are and where you've been online. This comforts some and annoys others, and for the latter comes the Freedom system, the most comprehensive software package ever to limit the traceability of Internet usage. Produced by Montreal tech firm Zero-Knowledge Systems, the software has been long awaited by privacy advocates, and long dreaded by groups battling cyber-evils such as web-based child-porn rings. How it works: Surfers who purchase the $50 software are given five digital aliases. While web sites can normally trace...