Word: steven
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However, the vast majority of hackers are out there for the taking of private information, as in the cases of the Dunster and Eliot House system break-ins. Some follow a profoundly anti-bureaucratic ethic that was defined by Steven Levy in his 1984 book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. His tenets are as follows: Access to computers should be unlimited and total, all information should be free, authority should be mistrusted and decentralization should be promoted...
...offenders are required to attend smoking court, presided over once a month by Broward County Court Judge Steven Shutter. On a recent Monday, more than 100 teens, parents in tow, waited to plead their cases. Nerdy kids in starched white shirts and ties stood next to parents who seemed poised to throttle them. A teen with a pierced chin and purple hair sneaked out to the parking lot during a break for a quick smoke. Instead of intimidating the youths, Judge Shutter tried to keep the mood light. "Don't come back and visit," he joked to some before moving...
...Steven Guzman is only 12, but he's booked solid. He wakes up at 6 every weekday morning, downs a five-minute breakfast, reports to school at 7:50, returns home at 3:15, hits the books from 5 to 9 (with a break for dinner) and goes to sleep at 10:30. Saturdays are little better: from 9 to 5 he attends a prep program in the hope of getting a scholarship to a private school. Then there are piano lessons and a couple of hours of practice a week. If he's lucky, he'll squeeze...
...Michigan's Institute for Social Research compiled the 1997 time diaries of 3,586 children nationwide, ages 12 and under. The participants came from virtually every ethnic background and all kinds of households--rich, poor, single parent, dual income. But funnily enough, they all sounded a little like Steven...
...Steven E. Ozment, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, says he is concerned that that a world history course would simply have to cover too much material. Both Western history and world history classes, are, by definition, survey courses, requiring vast amounts of information to be condensed into the span of a year. Naturally, the amount of information in a world history class is much greater...