Word: pioneers
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...technical reasons, it is extremely difficult to stamp out anything on the Internet--particularly images stored on the Usenet newsgroups. As Internet pioneer John Gilmore famously put it, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." There are border issues as well. Other countries on the Internet--France, for instance--are probably no more interested in having their messages screened by U.S. censors than Americans would be in having theirs screened by, say, the government of Saudi Arabia...
...Jonas Salk,the medical pioneer who developed the first polio vaccine, died of heart failure in La Jolla, Calif. this afternoon. Salk became a hero to millions of Americans in the 1950s when he ignored scientific doubters and used killed virus to develop the polio vaccine. Similarly, he ignored skeptics later in life when he tried to devise a vaccine-like treatment for AIDS...
...early pioneer in the information revolution, Hiestand began a small business developing computer program in 1962. "There were computers those days, he said ,"although it's a far cry from today...
Gates has invested in a variety of speculative alliances: with Hollywood's DreamWorks troika (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen) to make interactive entertainment products; with cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., to build interactive TV systems; with cellular-telephone pioneer Craig McCaw's Teledesic Corp., to build a network of low-flying telecommunications satellites...
HOSPITALIZED. FATS DOMINO, 67, corpulent rock pioneer now touring with fellow seniors James Brown and Chuck Berry; for exhaustion and infection; in London...