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...approved, the task force's changes will take effect for a six-month trial period, after which the task force will re-evaluate the format...

Author: By Melissa K. Crocker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Council Moves To Restrict Public Comment | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...approved, the task force's changes will take effect for a six-month trial period, after which the task force will re-evaluate the format...

Author: By Melissa K. Crocker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Council MovesTo Limit Public Comments | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...stunning advance in the shoring up of biases, both benign (one's own views) and noxious (other views). Whether anyone's opinion is changed by the Web is an open question, though of course the same could be said of Balkan politics and air strikes. A six-month debate on an Environmental News Network forum www.enn.com/community/forum) about agribusiness, organic farming and Monsanto's genetic engineering of plants, began in September with sweet reason: "In the U.S. only 10.9% of the average American's income is spent on food. Compare this to Britain at 11.5%, Sweden 14.5%." Fairly quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In Cyberspace | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...started, of all places, in the Swiss Alps. The year was 1980. Berners-Lee, doing a six-month stint as a software engineer at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva, was noodling around with a way to organize his far-flung notes. He had always been interested in programs that dealt with information in a "brain-like way" but that could improve upon that occasionally memory-constrained organ. So he devised a piece of software that could, as he put it, keep "track of all the random associations one comes across in real life and brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Network Designer Tim Berners-Lee | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Donald and Dianne Cantor, both 54, took a six-month respite from their busy lives in Los Angeles six years ago to search for a new place with a gentler pace where they could retire. They bought a boat in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and cruised up the Intracoastal Waterway, rejecting Jekyll Island, Ga., and some North Carolina towns and eventually settling on Chestertown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Chestertown, MD. | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

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