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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broad audience in the San Francisco area. In the days before fax machines, cable television and the Internet, radio was the most efficient way to mobilize large crowds for protests and to make new converts through consciousness-raising. Activists say that despite new technologies, KPFA is still a vital element of their work. Its eclectic programming ranges from Noam Chomsky...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, | Title: Berkeley's Lesson For the Left | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...broad audience in the San Francisco area. In the days before fax machines, cable television and the Internet, radio was the most efficient way to mobilize large crowds for protests and to make new converts through consciousness-raising. Activists say that despite new technologies, KPFA is still a vital element of their work. Its eclectic programming ranges from Noam Chomsky...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CALIFORNIA: Berkeley's Lesson For the Left | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

Researchers at Harvard and throughout the United States believe that primate research is vital to understanding certain diseases and phenomena, Gibbons said...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Primate Freedom Tour Visits Harvard | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...most offensive ad in the magazine is a small quarter-pager entitled "When ethnic targeting is vital to your campaing..." The rest of it is exactly what you think. You don't need Ed Rollins to threaten black ministers in New Jersey anymore, apparently...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: A Cancer on Politics | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...than electronic bingo. That's why Miccosukee chairman Billy Cypress likes to usher guests onto the rooftop and point west to his tribe's home: the Everglades. An 18,000-sq.-mi. expanse of shimmering water, waving sawgrass and emerald tree hammocks, it is one of America's most vital but abused natural treasures. Like the endangered wood storks that glide overhead, the fewer than 500 Miccosukees rely upon this unique "river of grass" for their survival as a tribe. And they rely on gaming profits to buy the multimillion-dollar legal and scientific clout they need to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Stand | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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