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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...patents in question contain coding information that makes Web searches easier by using a "natural language system," which allows users to input plain English sentences or questions to search Internet sites...

Author: By Nate P. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Profs Sue Ask Jeeves Over Patent Use | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...began as strangers. At our first dinner meeting I discovered Aaron's aversion to taste--hence the plain Cheerios and white rice. Before he knew my name, J.P. told me my Lacoste sweater was totally Connecticut. I remember asking Anna, for her first assignment, to photograph people making-out on Widener's steps. Mica claims I snubbed her in the Lamont bathroom freshman year but I think it went the other way around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Editor's Note: To Us | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...Totally over crummy paper (feel this crap!) E-mail. Halo (NYC). Over boyfriends. And name-dropping. We're over our theses (before they've even started). Extra-long twin beds. Tealuxe. Fellowships. E-anythings. Allston Burr Senior Tutors. Smoking. Anxiety-induced vomiting and dream sequences. Aaron has discovered the plain front; he's over pleats. Over the learner's permit. Cafe Pamplona? Pretty much over that. Over the affordable Audi TT. Over the hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...About a year ago I started hearing about how computers around the world were going to crash," Gonsalves says. "Now, with my computer science background, I thought, that is just plain wrong...

Author: By James P. Mcfadden, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Area Inventors Create Millennial Symphony which Genuinely Welcomes the Y2K Bug | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

...cell-phone store. "Several press accounts have stated that there were only 'hundreds of anarchists'" in Seattle, an online activist wrote last week. "This would be true if you only counted teenagers dressed in black. This would have left out...the vast majority of us, who look just plain ole working class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Organized Anarchists Led Seattle into Chaos | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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