Facing up to the real issues of summer
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Issues on the agenda for the Lake Rash Yacht Club's Aug 1995 meeting included cigarette smuggling as a potential fund-raising method, conflicts between rival zebra mussel advocacy groups, and the Quebec separatism movement. The absence of yachts on Lake Rash was also discussed.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1995
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Why the media fail in high-tech coverage
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North American media outlets tend to overhype the Internet, Windows 95, and similar technological developments, because they want to be perceived as strictly up-to-date. Instead of blatant boosterism, a healthy cynicism about new communications technologies is needed.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1995
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A courageous answer to a tough question
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The social aspects of living in a democracy and the possible reasons the Soviet people defied the leaders of the failed 1991 coup are analyzed.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1991
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