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...Napster's heyday, pirated TV shows were a rarity on the Net. But that changed with the advent of broadband home connections, $40 TV tuner cards that snap into your PC and cheap ways to store data. Looking for episodes of Friends? The MPAA counted more than 5,000 locations on the Internet last year where people could download episodes for free. Using custom software to track copyright violations, it also found 4,000 sites for The Simpsons and 2,000 for The Sopranos. Big Pussy is not going to like that...
Since then has been used for treating cancer patients. But with the advent of a new facility for cancer treatment in Boston, the cyclotron is no longer needed for medicine either...
Having chosen men, women, couples and groups of the year, TIME in 1982 named a machine, the computer. (It would take similar liberties with the formula in 1988, hailing the endangered Earth as Planet of the Year.) The computer had long been a fixture in modern life, but the advent of the personal computer made the "desktop revolution" accessible to millions. TIME's story predicted that home computers would someday be as commonplace as TV sets or dishwashers. Twenty years later, with 60% of the U.S. wired, that is well on the way to coming true. The story also foresaw...
Christian faith has long endured the chipping away at authority that is the hallmark of modern academia. But church and campus have never seemed as estranged as they have since the advent of postmodernism, the notion that there is no universal truth, merely competing "narratives" jockeying eternally for supremacy. That is, until 1990, when a young British professor named John Milbank pioneered what The Chronicle of Higher Education has suggested may be the "biggest development in theology since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door...
...Plautus, Terence, Machiavelli (yes, he of the famous political treatise) Marlowe, Shakespeare, Moliere, Ben Jonson and Shaw, along with many others. Even this light-hearted romp, though, must end. As the title of the book suggests, the book concludes on a grim note, charging that comedy perished with the advent of what Segal calls the Theater of the Absurd, which was characterized by the decay of language and theme of the meaninglessness of existence. Most of the final chapter is devoted to an analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which, Segal argues, marked...