Word: using
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Said "gee whiz" yet? Don't. Campaigning still takes place in the real world--on doorsteps, soapboxes and televisions. In a TIME/CNN poll, only 17% of adults in the survey said they use the Internet to gain access to politics. But digital democracy 2.0 is showing hints of just what politics will be like when most of America has faster hookups: town halls held in a hundred living rooms, where voters can interact with their representatives...
...than Forbes'. And no campaign needs it more. With most pundits writing off the second gambit of the multimillionaire, Forbes is eager to eliminate the middleman and get right into the breakfast nook. His campaign has boasted it will spend close to $1 million on its Internet strategy and use the technology as John Kennedy used television in the 1960 campaign. Beyond advertising, Forbes has kept his faithful marinated in daily e-mails targeted at their interests. The campaign has tried to re-create the old ward-politics feel, assigning "e-precincts" and "e-captains" to empower volunteers to gather...
...there is such a thing as shining too much light on a subject. The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America studied commercial lighting and concluded that many companies use five times the amount of light necessary for effective marketing. "Business lights are out of control," says Nancy Clanton, a lighting designer who helped the I.E.S. draft new guidelines recommending that outdoor lighting be reduced as much...
...would have to pay reparations to African Americans if they fessed up about what their ancestors did to our ancestors," said Kingfish. "Brother White, didn't you calculate a couple of years ago that the due bill for slavery could be as much as $24 trillion? I sho' could use my share...
...drug use?" The barrage of questions continues at the "psychological station...