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Ferrell says he would not have taken the course if it had been taught in Pascal. "I only would have taken it if it were in C or C++ because its what everybody uses, Pascal is outdated and useless...

Author: By Stephanie P. Wexler, | Title: COMPUTER SCIENCE 50 | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...Widespread drug treatment will have to wait for health-care reform, says the White House, but the desire to keep the package's overall cost down has already caused a cutback in the planned coverage. As currently contemplated, says Rosenthal, "the treatment the Administration is proposing will be almost useless in helping the hard- core user kick his habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Clinton's Drug Policy Is a Bust | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...accompanying text says that the bears "represent art, society, government and history--all dead or dying in the foul, putrid, maggot-ridden, useless stench pool of the present...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: AN UNDERGRADUATE GUIDE TO Interior Decorating | 12/18/1993 | See Source »

...when gender specificity is taken to an extreme, it can undo the very goals it seeks to achieve. Stripping words down to their bare essentials can lead to a vague, nondescriptive--and practically useless--form of language. Imagine the birth of the human race told in gender neutral terms: God caused the person to fall into a deep sleep and took one of its ribs and closed flesh around it. God built the rib taken from the person into a person...This will be called a person, for from a person was it taken. Clearly, neutering language has its limits...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: The Neutering of Language | 12/17/1993 | See Source »

Perhaps the only person in history with more lives than his cat, Clinton has been declared dead and buried so many times that it is useless to keep counting. But he just keeps going and going and going...

Author: By Jay Kim, | Title: The Energizer Bunny President | 12/15/1993 | See Source »

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