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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Though it wasn't called spam until the 1980s - the term comes from a Monty Python sketch set in a cafeteria, where a crowd of Vikings drowns out the rest of conversation by repeatedly singing the name of the unpopular processed meat - the first unsolicited messages came over the wires as early as 1864, when telegraph lines were used to send dubious investment offers to wealthy Americans. The first modern spam was sent on ARPANET, the military computer network that preceded the Internet. In 1978, a man named Gary Turk sent an e-mail solicitation to 400 people, advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spam | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...reason why the Chinese government would let them die," he says. "A parent may like one child more than the other, but at the end of the day I think they will continue to do well and continue to do business in China." With the rest of the global economy still stagnating, life as China's stepchild may be the best some international firms can hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tower of Power | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...goal proved to be critical, as the Big Green dominated the ball for the rest of the half. Junior Alex Chi worked hard in the midfield to send the ball up, but senior forward Andre Akpan and freshman forward Brian Rogers were stifled by Dartmouth’s physical defense. Clashes sent Akpan to the ground on a few occasions, and the co-captain seemed to be looking for penalties to be called...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Breaks Slump To Assist Harvard’s 2-1 Victory at Home | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...Exhibition," museum-goers can first be sorted into one of the four Hogwarts Houses by the Sorting Hat. The oak doors that then lead into the rest of the exhibition open on a black room where scenes from the movies play in loop. Suddenly, a black screen rises, and Platform 9 3/4 appears, complete with a steaming red train engine and a waiting platform attendant carrying an old-fashioned lamp...

Author: By Shaomin C. Chew, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Accio! Museum of Science Summons HP | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...like to make ‘Boondock’ for the rest of my life...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Return of Boston's Patron 'Saints' | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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