Doodling Beats Godzilla in Global Tech Race
The piece contrasts American ingenuity with Japan’s centralized plans in high tech, arguing the U S leads in telecommunications and computer chips due to a free-wheeling culture. It notes Japan’s costly fiber network plan and lagging PC networking, citing U S PC usage and chip innovation as evidence of American advantage and the risks of central planning.
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Soviet Union
U.S
America
Japan
United States
Tokyo
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications
Los Angeles Times
South Korea
Taiwan
Singapore
Universities face seduction issue in campus culture
The piece discusses accusations of seduction in higher education, citing the University of Virginia debate on faculty student relations and critics like Cindy Aron. It advocates education over legislation, proposing university programs to review power dynamics and warn against coercive and exploitative interactions.
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University of Virginia
California State University At
Long Beach
Barry Dank
Dank
Cindy Aron
Virginia
Wolf through a feminist lens in the new werewolf tale
Suzanne Fields reviews the film Wolf directed by Mike Nichols and stars Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer. The piece argues the movie hijacks fairy tale wolf lore with political correctness and gender politics while noting the better, non sexist alternative versions like James Finn Garner’s Little Red Riding Hood parody.
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Wolf
Red Riding Hood
Jack Nicholson
Michelle Pfeiffer
Little Red Riding Hood
James Finn Garner
Ms. Hood
Gray Power
Granny
Ine
Lorena Bobbitt
Grandma
Suzanne Fields
Washington
Los Angeles Times
Pursuit over $4 drive away sparks debate
A Marine driver fled after paying $4 for gasoline, prompting a high speed chase that ended in fatalities. The Sun Journal notes the Duplin County incident involved a Camp Lejeune Marine and drew criticism of hot pursuit, highlighting taxpayer funded law enforcement resources and the risk to others.
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John H. Wollerton
Bayboro
Mr. Wollerton
Duplin County
Camp Lejeune
Sun Journal
Bill bars children from truck cargo areas in North Carolina
Rep Dub Dickson won approval for a law banning children from cargo areas of pickup trucks, with an agricultural exemption for rural counties. The measure, backed by the North Carolina Pediatric Society, aims to reduce brain injuries and deaths, though a migrant-family exemption drew exasperation. A related act by Rep Sam Ellis closes a window tinting loophole, addressing safety concerns for officers and motorists.
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Dub Dickson
Rgaston
Dickson
Senate
N.C
Charlotte
House
Frank Ballance
D-Warren
Ballance
Bareley
Sam Ellis
R-Wake
Paul O' Connor
The
Capitol Press Association
Visitor laments neglected Tryon Palace gardens and grounds
Mrs Hugh Henderson recalls a 1991 visit to Tryon Palace in New Bern, praising the gardens then but expressing shock at present neglect. She notes weeds, Magnolia debris, untrimmed boxwoods, and poorer maintenance of the John Wright Stanly House. She asks whether funding declined and urges renewed care to honor the site’s historic significance.
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New Bern
Tryon Palace
U.S
John Wright Stanly
Hugh Henderson
Grosse Pointe Park
Mich
Submissions Requested For New Bern Letters
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New Bern
N.C
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