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.

Humor and anecdotes, Clubs, Clubs (Associations), Yacht clubs

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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.

Internet, Technology, Media coverage, Mass media, Mass media and technology, Microsoft Windows 95 (Operating system)

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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.

United States, Political aspects, Democracy, Coups d'etat, Life style, Lifestyles, Soviet Union, column

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