How many Americans use the World Wide Web
A Baruch College Harris survey estimates 17 million U.S. adults have used the Internet, about 1 in 11. The study, drawn from four polls of 4,022 adults, finds 9 percent had accessed the Web, with a third using it for political information. Some experts doubt precise counts due to the inexact science of measuring Internet use.
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U.S
Baruch College School of Public Affairs
Louis Harris and Associates
Harris
Teachers Strike Locks Down Oakland Public Schools
Oakland public school teachers walk picket lines vowing to stay out indefinitely amid a yearlong contract dispute with the district promising to keep schools open for over 50 000 students using administrators and substitutes. Uproar centers on class size salaries and retirement plans as Oak land Education Assn members demand change.
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Oakland
Louella Farris
Oakland Education Assn
Beauty queen's jail sentence cut by judge
Tracy Lippard, a former Miss Williamsburg crowned in February 1994, had her two year sentence for attempted murder halved for good behavior. The 24 year old could be eligible for parole at the end of April after a 250 mile journey to the Weikle home where Melissa Weikle, pregnant with Todd Scott's child, was involved with the same man. Lippard confronted Scott after he failed to appear at the pageant.
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Ms. Lippard
Williamsburg
Lewisburg
Rodney
Lynn Weikle
Lippard
Weikles
Melissa
Todd Scott
Melissa Weikle
Scott
Weikle
Testimony recounts Salvi abortion clinic rampage in 1994
Witnesses described John Salvi III shouting religious phrases as he opened fire at two Massachusetts abortion clinics on December 30 1994 killing two receptionists and wounding five others. Security guard exchanged gunfire while Salvi claimed insanity and defense argues anti Catholic conspiracy as motive.
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Drouam
Mass
John C. Salvi III
David Fairbanks
Salvi
Hampton
N.H
Lee Ann Nichols
Nichols
Clinic
Richard Seron
Seron
Judge blocks ban on Internet indecency law
A federal judge ordered a temporary restraining order stopping enforcement of the Communications Decency Act. The ruling delays prosecution while a lawsuit by the ACLU and 19 groups challenges privacy and free speech impacts. The act would impose fines up to 250,000 dollars and up to five years in prison.
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Philadelphia
U.S
Ronald Buckwalter
American Civil Liberties Union
Clinton
Court bars smuggler from bar
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court denied Harvey Prager's bid to join the bar, saying it is too early to judge rehabilitation. The 47 year old, a former Bowdoin student and Harvard graduate, pleaded guilty in 1988 to smuggling 11 tons of marijuana and may reapply in five years.
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Massachusetts
Harvey Prager
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Prager
Phi Beta Kappa
Bowdoin College
Harvard University
Europe
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Maine
University of Maine
Maine Supreme Court
Seat belt study shows belt use cuts medical costs
Washington AP reports a Transportation Department study finds belted accident victims incur far lower hospital bills than unbelted drivers. In seven states from 1991 to 1993, average inpatient costs were 9004 dollars with belts versus 13937 without. overall costs rise 68 million dollars in the studied states.
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America
Transportation Department
Transportation
Federico Pena
Ricardo Martinez
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Pena
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