Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Payback," billed as Hollywood's first interactive movie, is further proof that the world is turning into a big video game. The most uncanny element of the digital revolution is that none of us can escape it, but almost none of us understands it at all. Since our access to the various technologies that surround us is regulated in away we cannot control, our relation to digital media is necessarily coerced...
...student attempting to disengage a toddler from his calf. "Playing with them definitely brings back your sense of perspective." And for those feeling a bit lonely, the children lend Mather a sort of family-type atmosphere. The kids are almost ridiculously well-behaved, making Mather's sophisticated riot-proof mechanisms unnecessary...
...technical policy and public-service director Edward Groth III calls the fda letter to Hansen "hogwash, a propaganda document put out to discredit his report." Groth defends Hansen's expertise and explains CR's position on bst: "The literature shows there is possibly a problem but no conclusive proof. Scientist A says we should be cautious. Scientist B says let's go ahead. Science sometimes carries more weight than it should. Science is good, but in policy you need value judgments...
...Angeles Music Center Opera's sensational new production of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, currently on view at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion a couple of blocks away. In a season distinguished by compelling, innovative stagings of Strauss's Elektra and Handel's Xerxes, the new Pelleas offers yet more proof that for consistent excellence the still fledgling company is already the equal of its older and more established American rivals...
...when a serious analyst weighs in with a major political critique, he almost automatically becomes a sensation. The latest proof of that is author Wang Shan. When he published his book, Viewing China Through a Third Eye, last year, Wang tried to protect himself by presenting it as the work of a German sinologist. Only after party chief Jiang had praised the book and more than 200,000 copies had been sold was its true authorship revealed...