Word: saversion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even sites that begin as administrative labor-savers tend to evolve into specialized academic tools for the course being taught. Bribiescas says the Science B-29 web site included an innovative way to prepare for tests. Old tests were uploaded to web pages and students could take mock tests by...
In some circles the techno-bashing Unabomber has become a cultural hero. Nowhere is that irony more apparent than on the technological frontier of the Internet. There, copies of the manifesto are as abundant as flame wars. One site offers a Unabomber theme song, another invites people to attend an...
The fear is most widespread in Russia. The Russian Central Bank estimates that somewhere between $15 billion and $20 billion of U.S. currency is in Russia, about 80% of it in the form of $100 bills. Everyone from small savers to businessmen to members of the Mafia relies on hundreds...
Moving to assuage panic about the redesign of the $100 note, a U.S. Treasury Department spokesman held a news conference--in Moscow. Jittery Russian savers, oft burned by the unstable ruble and corrupt banks, hold $15 billion in U.S. cash, most in $100 bills, and up to $200 million in...
Blue Man Group uses all this "shit" to recreate the accumulation culture of America in the late 20th century. "Tubes" takes the icons of the 'nineties--the Internet, Screen Savers, processed foods and forces the audience to recognize them for what they are--man-made objects which we control; they...