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Baran's packet-switching network, as it came to be called, might have been a minor footnote in cold war history were it not for one contingency: it took root in the computers that began showing up in universities and government ^ research laboratories in the late 1960s and early 1970s and became, by a path as circuitous as one taken by those wayward packets, the technological underpinning of the Internet...
...Coke, Sprite, ginger ale, tomato juice, orange juice, apple juice, lemonade, diet Coke, diet Sprite, orange soda, milk, tea, coffee, decaf, root beer, club soda, mineral water, ice water...
...comes to the defense of talking cures and their founder: "Even Freudian analysts don't hold themselves 100% to Freud. Psychotherapy is like one of those branching trees, where each of the branches legitimately claims a common ancestry, namely Freud, but none of the branches are sitting at the root. We'd be very mistaken to jettison psychotherapy or Freud...
While some psychologists largely attribute anorexia to "sexual victimization," it seems instead that the root cause is the perpetuation of an unfair standard for today's women. The vast majority of men expect women to be ridiculously slim...
...There is tremendous hunger out there for a man who can speak the language of politics and the church and the academy. And I hope desperately that he will take deep root here," said Christopher Lydon, a former Boston mayoral candidate and WGBH-TV host...