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Third, the sheer volume of publicly accessible information on the Internet makes it easy for users to suffer from "information overload." Never before has a medium existed with so much data, so immediately obtainable. Most means of accessing the Internet do not moderate the flow of information between computer and user...

Author: By Eugene Koh and Douglas M. Pravda, S | Title: Exploring the World Wide Web | 12/6/1994 | See Source »

...mismatched double weddin' of Gunther to Brunnhilde and of her drugged true love Siegfried to Gutrune. One way or another, much of the opera plot -- too much -- is noted. As one of the actors says, pointing at the audience, "Their eyes is glazed over! They're on information overload...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Dead Ringer | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...movie, which does have a sort of cheeky energy, goes into narrative and cliche overload once the spacemen start exploring the unnamed planet -- Shall we call it Lucasland? -- where they set down. There's a slave population to be freed, a tyrant to be deposed, some cheapish special effects to put on display, and a lot of problems about getting safely back to Earth to solve. Tying all this together, Stargate stumbles to a hasty, muddled ending instead of soaring to a conclusion worthy of the only thing that's first rate about it -- its sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Indiana Jones, Space Linguist | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...first option would keep the roles of Dean of the College and Dean for Undergraduate Education essentially unchanged. A second option would combine the two posts into one office, while creating new assistant deans to alleviate administrative overload...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Students Press For Inclusive Dean Search | 10/28/1994 | See Source »

...illness like tuberculosis, the immune system kills the body's own cells in the localized areas where TB germs have taken hold, including the lungs or the bones. With staph or strep, the sheer volume of disease-fighting immune cells can overload blood vessels, ripping tiny tears in the vessel linings; toxins can also damage the vessels directly. Plasma begins to leak out of the bloodstream; blood pressure drops, organs fail, and the body falls into a state of shock. In cholera, bacterial toxins attack intestinal cells, triggering diarrhea, catastrophic dehydration and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: The Killers All Around | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

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