Word: traced
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretty hard to trace [who's doing this]," says Simone Grato, an employee at the store...
...accept the existence of non-ideal facts about human behavior, like prejudice and sexual aggression. According to this system of belief, only rational beings are morally worthy and deserving of respect. An idealistic enterprise like political correctness therefore refuses to compromise with reality or to stop proselytizing until every trace of irrational prejudice--esp. racial, sexual, and homophobic--is eradicated. Idealism leads to the desire to make real people into ideal people, no matter what the costs...
...trace a rather simple request through Harvard's Goldbergian channels. A junior realized that she didn't have an up-to-date copy of her transcript, which she needed for an application for her House's nomination to a fellowship. The fellowships tutor suggested that the House office, with its capability of calling up unofficial transcripts, would surely be able to oblige The office, on the other hand, confirming that it indeed had the ability to do so, demurred that it was not allowed to print out an unofficial transcript. "But," replied the staffer with the cultivated courtesy...
Before too long, students will access their entries with electronic card keys which have individual codes that are easily monitored. The police department and administrators throughout the University already trace student calls through use of caller ID displays on their phones. And Harvard has the capability of reading the private communications of students sent over the electronic mail system, though it promises...
These ideas, of course, did not spring fully formed from the mind of Jobs. Any good Mac historian will trace the machine's ancestry to Vannevar Bush (a White House science adviser who was dreaming about electronic desktops in 1945), Douglas Engelbart (who invented windows and the mouse) and Alan Kay's team at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California (which put the ideas to work in a language called Smalltalk and a machine called the Alto). Levy re-creates in vivid detail the December 1979 "daylight raid," when the scrappy engineers from Apple, invited...