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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 13:55:01 -0600
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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 05:36:22 -0400
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From: Andrew Russ
Subject: Science and Literature web sites -- summary of responses
and some
other sites i found
A couple months ago i solicited information on web sites pertaining to
literature and science. I got a number of replies, which i checked
out,
and found a couple interesting sites, some boring ones, and some that
were either interesting or boring but off the topic i had in mind.
There was also an occasional site of interest to some in SLS, but not
me (e.g. literature and medicine). I've collected these responses
below, listing only the URLs and some comments either by me or by
the person who sent the message originally.
Links to the most interesting (to me) of these sites are
on my own home page, which is at:
http://www.phys.psu.edu/~endwar
More on my site (it's mostly links and a few lists of references and
a couple book reviews) is towards the end of this message.
So here are the various sites i've found, in no significant order:
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/medhum.html
This looks like it is useful if you're interested in literuature and
medicine, which is not my specialty.
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAP/WWWVL-HSTM.html
This is a pretty major site in Australia. Definitely worth looking
at as it's general in scope.
http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/chass/mds/psts.html
This is the NC State site, which has about 100 links, about 80-90%
of which are to science sites (e.g. American Physical Society, National
Science Foundation, US Department of Education), but a few useful
links.
This URL has changed twice since it was sent to me! This one should
work.
Deanna Dunn wrote:
> A few months ago an interesting (free) newletter previewed a
couple of
>samples on the SLS. It is called INTERNET-ON-A-DISK. You can join
by
>contacting samizdat@tiac.net and simply asking to be added to the
list. It
>focuses mostly on opening up access to the internet for small
schools and
>has more of a literature flavor. In the process, however, it gives a
good
>synopses of new & interesting addresses, some of which have
electronic
>books on line.
And here's their URL: http://www.tiac.net/users/samizdat
Basically a good source for books on line, more than anything. Not much
on
Science and Literature, or science studies, or that kind of thing. But
good if you're looking for Last of the Mohicans or Moby Dick in a
computer
file, this is the place for you.
From: Elliot McGucken
>Hello, a great WWW site for both science and literature is the
Beaconway
>Press Home Page @, "http://sunsite.unc.edu/owl/home.html"
>
>Also, a great monthly e-journal for cool literature is The Jolly
Roger.
>You can subscribe to it by sending the message, "subscribe
drakeraft your
>name," to listserv@unc.edu. Have fun!
Mr. McGucken runs the Beaconway Press, at least in part. This
site is basically for promoting a literary journal, so it is a bit
off-topic.
>I just found a new environmental web site with a large glossary and
free
>conects to the CFR's. Dial http://www.gate.net/solutions.
This site collects information on environmental regulations,
primarily. There's a search engine. This is basically pure science,
as opposed to pure literature as above.
From: "Mark A. Turian"
>And, slightly off topic, have you checked out the Principia
Cybernetica
>pages? I think they would be a great model for organizing a new web
site.
>Let me hop over to my PPP accound and get you some URL's.
>
>Here is Principia Cybernetica's URL:
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Default.html
Apparently this was at one time changed to http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/,
but
the next to last time i tried it, i didn't connect. The last time i
tried
it, the only option i had was downloading the homepage to my own
directory,
which rendered the links useless (they have relative filenames).
I did get over there once before and it is a very informative site when
it works as designed. This page would be of interest
to those interested in cyperpunk of future related things. The
Principia
Cybernetica is a philosophy of/for the future (in their own
description)
You might try http://134.185.35.101/INTRO.html This seems to
work for the Principia Cybernetica, but is slow.
>For an individual's home page, check out:
>
> http://groucho.gsfc.nasa.gov/joslyn/joslyn.html
This person is on the Principia Cybernetica board (or something), and
i got the updated URL from this site, but it still didn't work.
http://www.webscope.com/project_mind/project_mind.html
This site is dedicated towards the establishment of a higher creativity
think-tank, rooted in the ideas of one T. Kun. Apparently a sort of
new-age
Kabbalistic philosophy or something.
>Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 17:14:45 PDT
>From: Bart Simon
>Subject: Re: SSSS list "sci-tech-studies"
>
>Sorry to add to the confusion, but the 4S (society for the social
>study of science) list sci-tech-studies is now located in Kansas.
>
>To subscribe send a message to listserv@kasey.umkc.edu and in the
>body of the message type
>
>subscribe sci-tech-studies firstname lastname
>
>This list moved from UCSD in January
>if you have any other questions about this list feel free to
contact
>me.
The tentative SLS conference program posted a few weeks ago by Jay A.
Labinger is now available on the World-Wide Web under the following
URL:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/projects/sls/program.html
>It's currently not listed from any of the other pages on our web
>server, so you will need to type in, or copy-and-paste this URL,
>into your Web browser's "Location:", "Open
Location" or "Open URL"
>window.
Needless to say, this is a relevant site for all SLS members.
andrew russ
In addition, my own web page is up at http://www.phys.psu.edu/~endwar
The front page has some physics stuff at the top, then science studies
in the
middle, some art/literature/music towards the bottom, and leftover stuff
at
the very bottom. Actual links to other sites are generally in separate
files,
and the ones of most interest here would probably be under sociology of
science (http://www.phys.psu.edu/~endwar/socsci.html). There's also
some links in nonlinear science and information theory, and so on.
Some of these links:
http://snorri.chem.washington.edu/ysnarchive/index.html -- this is the
current
site for the Young Scientists Network. There are some case studies of
nontraditional job paths taken by PhDs forced out of their field by the
current tight job market.
http://www.eff.org/ -- The Electronic Frontier Foundation -- devoted
to
privacy and civil rights issues in cyberspace.
http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.html -- access to archives of
the
Red Rock Eater mailing list operated by Philip Agre. It covers some of
the
same area as the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
http://www.physics.umd.edu/rgroups/ripe/readlist.html -- a reading list
on
physics education maintained at the University of Maryland.
http://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/~shalizi/hyper-weird -- Weird science?
An
attempt to replicate High Weirdness by Mail onthe web, but comes close
to
being a pretty useful selective index of topics.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~edis/skeptic_biblio.html -- a Skeptical
guide to weird science on the web.
http://www.liv.ac.uk/!larvar/intersci.html -- science and philosophy
at
Liverpool university.
http://www.umkc.edu/ac/sci-stud/ -- science studies at University of
Missouri
at Kansas City
http://www.ualberta.ca/~slis/guides/scitech/kmg.htm -- University of
Alberta.
One of these last two, i think the U of Alberta, had information as well
as links.
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Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 08:19:39 -0400
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From: John Young
Subject: Hunt for Unabomber (NewsClip)
The New York Times, August 5, 1995, pp. 1, 7.
Esoteric Wedge of Academia Is Roiled by Hunt for Bomber
[Photo] Keith R. Benson, of The History of Science
Society, said he believed that the serial bomber was a
knowledgeable outcast rather than a mainstream scholar.
By William J. Broad
Last October an agent from the Federal Bureau of
Investigation showed up in New Orleans at the annual
meeting of The History of Science Society, the main
professional gathering for academics studying the origins
of science and how it has transformed the world.
The agenda featured esoteric items like a discussion of
19th-century social attitudes toward the germ theory and a
detailed analysis of the inks that Galileo used in one of
his manuscripts.
Carrying court papers, the agent subpoenaed the society's
membership records and questioned scholars for clues to the
identity of the serial killer often called the Unabomber,
who in 17 years has killed three people and injured 23
others with homemade bombs.
That subpoena, and the disclosure that the F.B.I. believes
that the bomber is immersed in the most radical
interpretations of the history of science, has roiled the
usually placid waters of the discipline. And across the
country, professors have begun reconsidering old
suspicions, acquaintances and tracts to help solve the
crimes.
"They've thrown a bomb into the community," said Stanley
Goldberg, a science historian in Washington. "My impression
is that we're all scurrying around in our minds, thinking
of people who might be suspects."
The bureau had detected the bomber's interest in the
history of science, as well as other disciplines including
behavioral psychology, by poring over letters he had sent
to newspapers and to intended victims as long ago as a
decade. The 35,000-word manifesto that he sent to The New
York Times and two other publications in late June not only
corroborated that interest but also gave the bureau insight
into the issues that concerned the bomber, the depth of his
reading and the authors he respected.
More than a few historians of science, who blanched at the
possible link between their usually staid area of study and
the object of the most intense manhunt in F.B.I. history,
have taken pains to distance the discipline from a maniacal
murderer who seems to be familiar with their debates and
lines of thinking.
But Landon Winner, a political scientist and technology
expert at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.,
said he was disappointed the F.B.I. had not consulted with
him on the bomber. "I feel left out," Dr. Winner said.
"It's like being left off the guest list for a really good
party."
Scholars of the history of science investigate the origins
of science from the Babylonians and Greeks onward. They
study figures like Ptolemy, Copernicus, Newton, Galileo,
Mendel and the Curies, and examine questions like how
calculus was developed, and how telescopes, atom smashers
and computers were invented and helped change the world.
In some history departments with no emphasis on the
subject, professors sometimes believe that their pursuits
are not considered as serious as political or philosophical
history. "It was always regarded as a quixotic thing they
let me play with," said Professor Harold Bauman, who has
taught a variety of history courses for 30 years at the
University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Mr. Bauman has been interviewed three times by the F.B.I.
since the bomber left a booby trap bomb on the Utah campus
in October 1981; the device was defused before anyone was
hurt. He said he was scheduled to be interviewed again by
the F.B.I. yesterday and to be shown a copy of the
manifesto to review.
Several other professors in the field have also been given
copies of the tract, which condemns technological society
and the scientific progress that scholars in this arcane
field usually champion.
"They've got to be desperate," said David C. Lindberg, a
physicist at the University of Wisconsin who specializes in
medieval optics and religion and who is president of The
History of Science Society. "These are extremely tenuous
inferences they're making. But if it's the only thing
they've got, then it seems to make sense."
Some academics, while endorsing the bureau's all-out
search, take umbrage at the mention of their field and the
bomber in the same breath.
"It's like saying an appreciation of Beethoven has
something to do with the Nazis," said David A. Hollinger,
a professor of history at the University of California at
Berkeley.
Dr. Hollinger maintained that the ideas he read in
newspaper excerpts of the bomber's manifesto were less out
of the realm of the history of science than "generally from
a more amorphous critical discourse that moves out of
environmental groups and religious groups and some literary
discourses."
"I would be looking more toward alternative education
courses of the 70's," he said.
While conservative and scholarly for the most part, and
sometimes downright stuffy, the field of history of science
also has undercurrents and factions that have sometimes
mounted intellectual attacks on the science establishment,
blaming the military, industrial and academic worlds for
social ills like unemployment and pollution.
That radical milieu seems to have been the breeding ground
for the bomber, whose treatise says that science and the
industrial revolution have undermined human values and
calls for returning to a pre-industrial world better in
tune with nature.
This week Director Louis J. Freeh of the F.B.I. announced
that agents were talking to college professors around the
country about the manifesto. The bureau, Mr. Freed said in
a statement, "is taking this investigative step in an
effort to determine whether that community might recognize
the writer's work or be able to shed light on important or
telltale aspects of the manuscript's general topic, the
history of science."
In its hunt for the bomber's origins, the F.B.I. is
focusing on Northwestern University and the Chicago campus
of the University of Illinois, where the bureau believes
that the killer might have lived in the late 1970's.
In the course of its inquiry, the agency has sown
dissension among university officials quick to disclaim any
kind of culpability.
"This is a working-class campus," Jan Rocek, dean of the
graduate school of the University of Illinois at Chicago,
said in an interview. "These characters tend to come out of
more affluent families."
Charles Loebbaka, a spokesman for Northwestern, said,
"University officials are cooperating with the F.B.I. and
have been for sometime." But Mr. Loebbaka refused further
comment, saying details would have to come from the F.B.I.
Over the decades, historians and writers like Lewis
Mumford, Jacques Ellul, Theodore Roszak and Herbert Muller
have worried that science systematically ignores human
values. And even strongly proscience historians admit that
science tends to sow cultural discord because it is such a
powerful agent of social change.
In the 1970's, the intellectual critique of the science
establishment turned acid and sometimes violent as it
joined with and was amplified by protests against the
Vietnam War. Groups like Science for the People, a leftist
organization, used confrontational tactics to disrupt
meetings of scientists and to push for wider debate on the
social devastation wrought by science and its ugly
offspring, like napalm and nuclear weapons.
Science for the People was well-organized in the Chicago
area, sponsoring meetings at the various universities and
helping finance antiwar pamphlets. Its membership included
all kinds of scientists, not just historians and
philosophers.
After the August 1970 bombing of the Army Math Research
Center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in which
a researcher was killed, the Chicago collective of Science
for the People helped finance a 119-page "indictment" of
the math project, which was denounced as a "deadly power
center."
The F.B.I., which often infiltrated such anti-war groups in
the 1970's has not indicated whether it is looking at the
membership of the Chicago collective for clues. But some
historians say that it should as a possible aid to tracking
down the killer.
"This is a bright guy, but he doesn't know as much history
of science as the F.B.I. thinks he does," said Dr.
Goldberg, the science historian in Washington, who has read
published excerpts of the bomber's manifesto. "He's on the
fringes. It's more of a counterculture thing."
Keith R. Benson, the executive secretary of The History of
Science Society, which is based in Seattle at the
University of Washington, agreed. Mr. Benson said that,
based on his talks with F.B.I. agents and his examination
of the evidence, the killer was a knowledgeable outcast
rather than a mainstream scholar.
"My suspicion is that this guy lurked around the halls of
academia rather than being a graduate student," Mr. Benson
said. "He's unbelievably sophisticated. He's covered his
tracks."
[End]
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Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 15:24:19 PST
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From: Wayne Miller
Subject: Prototype On-Line Syllabi database....
Hi,
A couple months ago, I said I would create a World-Wide Web site for
collecting Science-Literature syllabi on-line (and automatically). Much
belatedly, there is a prototype at the URL below:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/projects/sls/syllabi/
This prototype is not listed on the UCLA Humanities home page, but it
is
listed on my home page.
I would appreciate in the next couple weeks some "test"
submissions to see
what the problems are, as well as some suggestions on formatting,
concept,
features you would like to see, etc. Since I am very interested in
using
your feedback, anything submitted now may not "fit" into the
production
database, so please keep that in mind and don't spend a lot of effort
now.
Also, I'm absconding for some vacation. There will be a couple weeks'
delay before I will respond to feedback.
Thanks -
Wayne
/-------------------------------------------------------/
Wayne Miller waynem@humnet.ucla.edu
Germanic Languages 2326 Murphy Hall, UCLA
Humanities Computing Facility 343 Kinsey Hall, UCLA
(310) 206-2004 FAX: (310) 825-7428
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Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 19:36:30 -0400
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From: Andrew Russ
Subject: Science and Literature sites on the web summary. (second
try)
A couple months ago i solicited information on web sites pertaining to
literature and science. I got a number of replies, which i checked
out,
and found a couple interesting sites, some boring ones, and some that
were either interesting or boring but off the topic i had in mind.
There was also an occasional site of interest to some in SLS, but not
me (e.g. literature and medicine). I've collected these responses
below, listing only the URLs and some comments either by me or by
the person who sent the message originally.
Links to the most interesting (to me) of these sites are
on my own home page, which is at:
http://www.phys.psu.edu/~endwar
More on my site (it's mostly links and a few lists of references and
a couple book reviews) is towards the end of this message.
So here are the various sites i've found, in no significant order:
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/medhum.html
This looks like it is useful if you're interested in literuature and
medicine, which is not my specialty.
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAP/WWWVL-HSTM.html
This is a pretty major site in Australia. Definitely worth looking
at as it's general in scope.
http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/chass/mds/psts.html
This is the NC State site, which has about 100 links, about 80-90%
of which are to science sites (e.g. American Physical Society, National
Science Foundation, US Department of Education), but a few useful
links.
This URL has changed twice since it was sent to me! This one should
work.
Deanna Dunn wrote:
> A few months ago an interesting (free) newletter previewed a
couple of
>samples on the SLS. It is called INTERNET-ON-A-DISK. You can join
by
>contacting samizdat@tiac.net and simply asking to be added to the
list. It
>focuses mostly on opening up access to the internet for small
schools and
>has more of a literature flavor. In the process, however, it gives a
good
>synopses of new & interesting addresses, some of which have
electronic
>books on line.
And here's their URL: http://www.tiac.net/users/samizdat
Basically a good source for books on line, more than anything. Not much
on
Science and Literature, or science studies, or that kind of thing. But
good if you're looking for Last of the Mohicans or Moby Dick in a
computer
file, this is the place for you.
From: Elliot McGucken
>Hello, a great WWW site for both science and literature is the
Beaconway
>Press Home Page @, "http://sunsite.unc.edu/owl/home.html"
>
>Also, a great monthly e-journal for cool literature is The Jolly
Roger.
>You can subscribe to it by sending the message, "subscribe
drakeraft your
>name," to listserv@unc.edu. Have fun!
Mr. McGucken runs the Beaconway Press, at least in part. This
site is basically for promoting a literary journal, so it is a bit
off-topic.
>I just found a new environmental web site with a large glossary and
free
>conects to the CFR's. Dial http://www.gate.net/solutions.
This site collects information on environmental regulations,
primarily. There's a search engine. This is basically pure science,
as opposed to pure literature as above.
From: "Mark A. Turian"
>And, slightly off topic, have you checked out the Principia
Cybernetica
>pages? I think they would be a great model for organizing a new web
site.
>Let me hop over to my PPP accound and get you some URL's.
>
>Here is Principia Cybernetica's URL:
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Default.html
Apparently this was at one time changed to http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/,
but
the next to last time i tried it, i didn't connect. The last time i
tried
it, the only option i had was downloading the homepage to my own
directory,
which rendered the links useless (they have relative filenames).
I did get over there once before and it is a very informative site when
it works as designed. This page would be of interest
to those interested in cyperpunk of future related things. The
Principia
Cybernetica is a philosophy of/for the future (in their own
description)
You might try http://134.185.35.101/INTRO.html This seems to
work for the Principia Cybernetica, but is slow.
>For an individual's home page, check out:
>
> http://groucho.gsfc.nasa.gov/joslyn/joslyn.html
This person is on the Principia Cybernetica board (or something), and
i got the updated URL from this site, but it still didn't work.
http://www.webscope.com/project_mind/project_mind.html
This site is dedicated towards the establishment of a higher creativity
think-tank, rooted in the ideas of one T. Kun. Apparently a sort of
new-age
Kabbalistic philosophy or something.
>Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 17:14:45 PDT
>From: Bart Simon
>Subject: Re: SSSS list "sci-tech-studies"
>
>Sorry to add to the confusion, but the 4S (society for the social
>study of science) list sci-tech-studies is now located in Kansas.
>
>To subscribe send a message to listserv@kasey.umkc.edu and in the
>body of the message type
>
>subscribe sci-tech-studies firstname lastname
>
>This list moved from UCSD in January
>if you have any other questions about this list feel free to
contact
>me.
The tentative SLS conference program posted a few weeks ago by Jay A.
Labinger is now available on the World-Wide Web under the following
URL:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/projects/sls/program.html
>It's currently not listed from any of the other pages on our web
>server, so you will need to type in, or copy-and-paste this URL,
>into your Web browser's "Location:", "Open
Location" or "Open URL"
>window.
Needless to say, this is a relevant site for all SLS members.
andrew russ
In addition, my own web page is up at http://www.phys.psu.edu/~endwar
The front page has some physics stuff at the top, then science studies
in the
middle, some art/literature/music towards the bottom, and leftover stuff
at
the very bottom. Actual links to other sites are generally in separate
files,
and the ones of most interest here would probably be under sociology of
science (http://www.phys.psu.edu/~endwar/socsci.html). There's also
some links in nonlinear science and information theory, and so on.
Some of these links:
http://snorri.chem.washington.edu/ysnarchive/index.html -- this is the
current
site for the Young Scientists Network. There are some case studies of
nontraditional job paths taken by PhDs forced out of their field by the
current tight job market.
http://www.eff.org/ -- The Electronic Frontier Foundation -- devoted
to
privacy and civil rights issues in cyberspace.
http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.html -- access to archives of
the
Red Rock Eater mailing list operated by Philip Agre. It covers some of
the
same area as the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
http://www.physics.umd.edu/rgroups/ripe/readlist.html -- a reading list
on
physics education maintained at the University of Maryland.
http://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/~shalizi/hyper-weird -- Weird science?
An
attempt to replicate High Weirdness by Mail onthe web, but comes close
to
being a pretty useful selective index of topics.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~edis/skeptic_biblio.html -- a Skeptical
guide to weird science on the web.
http://www.liv.ac.uk/!larvar/intersci.html -- science and philosophy
at
Liverpool university.
http://www.umkc.edu/ac/sci-stud/ -- science studies at University of
Missouri
at Kansas City
http://www.ualberta.ca/~slis/guides/scitech/kmg.htm -- University of
Alberta.
One of these last two, i think the U of Alberta, had information as well
as links.
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From: Elliot McGucken
Subject: POETRY FOR PHYSICISTS, PHYSICISTS FOR POETS.
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Check out the Poetry for Physicists at BeaconWay Press
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From: Julia A Delbridge
Subject: peace-wave
Comments: To: paul sotkiewicz
,
vanessa bailey ,
david lamotte , chuck brodsky ,
mike maniates
a poem 50 years behind THE bombs:
the narrow, sagging bridge between us
suspended by rusted cables & rotten boards
over the mile-deep canyon of our fears
is covered with broken glass
and on fire
it is not an easy step
to reach for impossible common ground
while suspended in mid-air
it is not an easy step
toward a person responsible for the death of my children
toward a person whose parents i murdered
it is not an easy step
away from a history of hatred, genocide & slavery
toward a future where we see this bridge
as life-giver, peace facilitator
it is not an easy step
toward a certain death for us both
if this bridge should fail
we stand on either side of this ravine
with famine, pain & death behind us both
knowing our choices & courage can effect millions
we stare, untrusting, into one another's eyes--so distant
i see your fear, you mine
we take one step
together
toward the flame
1995 jadelbridge
Peace,
Mitakuye Oyasin
julia
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From: Jim Bono
Subject: Airfares for SLS Meeting
For those of you planning to attend the SLS meeting in Los Angeles,
November
2-5, 1995, you may wish to take advantage of special fares being offered
for a
limited time.
Late last week a number of airlines slashed their fares for tickets
purchased through, I believe, either August 9th or 11th. American
Airlines is
one of them; it is also one of three "official" airlines for
the Los Angeles
conference offering additional discounts to those attending the SLS
meeting.
Northwestern and Alaska are the other "official" airlines;
they may well have
cut their fares too, so do check.
For details, and to book flights at special discounted rates, you can
contact the official agent for the conference, Sandra Courtney of
Travel
Concepts, Inc. by phone (1-800-777-0907) or fax (1-206-575-4289).
Good Luck, and see you in LA,
Jim Bono
President, SLS
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From: Christine Irizarry
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Is it legal to copy a New York Times article for wide distribution like
that? Did the poster pay a licence for doing it? Just wondering.
/ Chris in NYC
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From: Joe Amato
Subject: 1995 Nanotechnology Conference (fwd)
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Subject: 1995 Nanotechnology Conference
DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION IS SEPTEMBER 1ST
Please post and forward as appropriate:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Fourth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology
SUMMARY: The conference will be held November 9-11, 1995, in Palo Alto.
It is a
multidisciplinary meeting on molecular nanotechnology, that is,
thorough
three-dimensional structural control of materials and devices at the
molecular
level. Attendees will include chemists, materials scientists,
physicists,
engineers, and computer scientists interested in learning about the
field and
participating in its development. For further information, contact
foresight@cup.portal.com, or see the Web page
ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/nano/nano4.html.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Fourth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology
November 9-11, 1995
Palo Alto, California
Sponsor: Foresight Institute
Cosponsors: Caltech Materials and Process Simulation Center
USC Molecular Robotics Lab
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
This conference is a meeting of scientists and technologists working in
fields
leading toward molecular nanotechnology: thorough three-dimensional
structural
control of materials and devices at the molecular level. The conference
will
cover topics relevant to the pursuit of molecular control, drawing from
fields
such as:
supramolecular chemistry and self assembly
proximal probes (e.g. STM, AFM)
biochemistry and protein engineering
computational chemistry and molecular modeling
computer science (e.g. computational models, system design issues)
natural molecular machines (e.g. flagellar motor, ribosome)
materials science
mechanical engineering (CAD) and robotics
many others
Developments in these fields are converging, opening opportunities for
fruitful
collaboration in developing new instruments, devices, and capabilities.
Topics and invited speakers include:
Donald Brenner, N. Carolina State Univ.
Simulated Engineering of Nanostructures
Richard Colton, NRL
Tip Surface Interactions
Eric Drexler, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Directions in Nanotechnology
William A. Goddard III, Caltech
Computational Chemistry and Nanotechnology
Tracy Handel, UC Berkeley
Protein Design
Adm. David Jeremiah, USN (Ret.), Technology Strategies
and Alliances, (Topic to be announced)
Ralph Merkle, Xerox PARC
Design Considerations for an Assembler
Charles Musgrave, MIT
Chemical Synthesis of Nanomachinery
Aristides Requicha, USC
Molecular Robotics
Richard Smalley, Rice University
Nanotechnology at Rice
Fraser J. Stoddart, University of Birmingham
The Art and Science of Self-assembling Molecular Machines
FEYNMAN PRIZE
The 1995 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (and accompanying $10,000
award)
will be presented at the meeting to the researcher whose recent work
has
most advanced the development of molecular nanotechnology. Nomination
information is available from the Foresight Institute, or see on the
Web
ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/nano/feynmanPrize.html
DEMONSTRATIONS
Leading vendors will demonstrate products useful in the pursuit of
molecular
control, including molecular modeling software and hardware, and
proximal probe
systems (e.g. STM).
CALL FOR PAPERS
Contributions on relevant topics are solicited for presentation in
lecture or
poster format. Potential contributors are asked to submit an abstract
(200-400
words), including names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers of the
author(s),
email address, and an indication of whether oral or poster presentation
is
preferred. Papers of both kinds will be reviewed for publication.
Authors will
be encouraged to make their papers available electronically, and
accepted
preprints will be published on the Web. In choosing papers, priority
will
be given to (1) cogent descriptions of the state of the art in
techniques
relevant to the construction of complex molecular systems, (2)
well-grounded proposals for multidisciplinary efforts which, if funded
and
pursued, could substantially advance the state of the art, and (3)
reports
of recent relevant research.
JOURNAL & BOOK PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS
Proceedings of the conference will be refereed and published in a
special
issue of the international journal Nanotechnology and later in book
form.
Abstracts due June 30, 1995
Notification of acceptance August 1, 1995
Manuscripts due October 15, 1995
Abstracts should be directed to the Foresight Institute, Box 61058, Palo
Alto,
CA 94306, USA; fax 415-324-2497; email foresight@cup.portal.com.
SITE AND ACCOMMODATIONS
Conference sessions will be held at the Hyatt Hotel in Palo Alto.
Accommodation
arrangements should be made directly with the hotel. Reservations should
be
made by October 23; when making reservations, mention that you are
attending
the "Foresight Nanotechnology Conference" to obtain the lower
conference room
rate. Deposits in the amount of the first night's stay plus tax are
required to
guarantee reservations; these are refundable up to 6 PM on the date of
arrival.
Room rate: $93, single or double occupancy, plus 10% local tax.
Hyatt Hotel
4219 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94306
(415) 493-8000 tel
(415) 858-1151 fax
TRANSPORTATION
The conference site is easily reached from San Francisco International
Airport
and San Jose International Airport. Information on ground
transportation
services will be mailed to registrants.
REGISTRATION FORM
(please print and mail or fax)
Name:
Title: Dr. Prof. Ms. Mr.
Address:
Tel.:
Fax:
Email:
Position (programmer, professor, director, etc.):
Organizational affiliation (for your badge):
How did you hear about this conference:
The registration fee includes the scientific program, Wednesday evening
reception, Thursday and Friday luncheons, and a copy of the
proceedings journal issue. (Student and one-day rates do not include
proceedings.) Amounts over $100 are tax-deductible as a charitable
contribution.
postmarked: by Sept. 1 after Sept. 1
Regular $350 $400
Academic, nonprofit,
governmental $275 $325
Student $100 $125
One day (specify day) $135 $160
Amount enclosed: $
Payment may be made by VISA, MasterCard, check, or international money
order valid in the U.S. Make checks payable to "Foresight
Conferences";
checks and bank drafts must be in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank.
Refunds of registration fees can only be made on receipt of a written
request which must be postmarked no later than September 15, and are
subject to a $50 administrative fee. Credit card registrations may be
faxed.
Card #:
Exp. date:
Signature (required for credit card registrations):
Mail or fax registration to:
Foresight Institute
Box 61058, Palo Alto CA 94306 USA
Tel. 415-324-2490 Fax 415-324-2497
Internet: foresight@cup.portal.com
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 21:19:41 -0400
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From: Michael Clark
Subject: Seeking on-line syllabi: sci-lit
Folks,
I am new to this list and hope that this
request is not out of place.
I am seeking help in locating on-line
syllabi for courses in literature and
science. I quickly skimmed such
archives as Virginia, Toronto, and
Oxford--to no avail. Can anyone point me in the
right direction?
Please send responses to me at
Michael.Clark@cyber.widener.edu
Thank you.
Mike Clark
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From: Frank Durham
Subject: Lit-sci syllabi
Dear Michael Clark and others,
To reprise a recent discussion--on litsci-l--of syllabuses you might
find it
efficient to look at the litsci-l archives. These can be obtained by
sending the command
for a given month, thus
get litsci-l log9506
(for example: this retrieves June 1995 ["95-06"]. The command
is sent
directly to
listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
and definitely not to litsci-l at the same address. Nothing else should
be
in the message. The syllabus discussion was in June or perhaps May of
this
year.
If I have this garbled, as so often happens, someone set it right.
Thanks.
Best wishes to all of you,
Frank Durham
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From: Passingdyk@AOL.COM
Subject: Queer Coalitions Call for Papers
Please post this message on your list serv. Thank you.
QUEER COALITIONS
The 6th Annual National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transidentified Graduate Student Conference
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio April 4-7, 1996
CALL FOR PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS
Through panel presentations, performances, conversations, and cultural
events, QUEER COALITIONS offers a forum that builds bridges across
disciplines. QUEER COALITIONS seeks to create communities across
traditional
barriers.
In November 1992 in Cincinnati, Ohio, located 50 miles south of Miami
University, Cincinnati City Council passed a Human Rights Ordinance
prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing, and public
accommodations.
This Ordinance protected Cincinnati citizens on the basis of race,
gender,
age, handicap, marital status, sexual orientation, national or ethnic
origin,
or Appalachian identity. Exactly one year later a group known as
"Equal
Rights Not Special Rights" called into question the category of
"sexual
orientation" in the Human Rights Ordinance and brought it to
Cincinnati
voters on the November ballot. Sixty-two percent of the voters passed
this
charter amendment known as Issue 3 denying protection to anyone on the
basis
of sexual orientation. In addition to the defeat at the polls,
Cincinnati
City Council voted this past March to repeal "sexual
orientation" from the
Human Rights Ordinance that originally protected queer Cincinnatians.
And on
May 12th the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati
upheld the anti-queer initiative, Issue 3. At present, Cincinnati's
Issue 3
is waiting to be heard by the United States Supreme Court.
What occurred in Cincinnati is by no means an isolated series of
events.
Other communities have been devastated by such legislation; for example,
the
passage of Proposition 187 in California. Communication across racial,
class, and gendered barriers has been wounded by this series of
defeats.
QUEER COALITIONS invites students, activists, performers, and artists
from a
variety of disciplines to engage in collective discussion of new
approaches
to building bridges inside and outside of queer communities.
************************************************************************
The conference planning committee requests abstracts and/or proposals
(1-2
pgs.) for papers and presentations that discuss, interrogate, and
contest
these and other issues in "queer" studies:
ACTIVISM/ACADEMICS, AIDS RELATED RESEARCH, GENDER REASSIGNMENT
TECHNOLOGY,
COLLECTIVE KINK POLITICS, BUILDING MOVEMENTS, TRANSGENDER,
TRANSEXUALITY,
SEXUALITY AND CULTURAL NATIONALISMS, QUEER POLITICS, HOMOPHOBIA IN
HEALTH
CARE, LESBIAN AND GAY PARENTING, ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION RESEARCH,
CHICANO/A
SEXUALITY, LESBIAN FEMINISM, SEXUALITY IN ETHNIC STUDIES, LEGALIZING
SAME SEX
MARRIAGES, BISEXUALITY, DOMESTIC PARTNER LEGISLATION, LESBIAN AND GAY
SEXUALITY IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, POST COLONIALISM AND QUEER
SEXUALITY,
LESBIANS WITH AIDS, SAFE SEX, S/M, PLEASURE AND SEXUALITY, ASIAN
AMERICAN
SEXUALITY, LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORIES, ANTI-QUEER LEGISLATION,
VIOLENCE/ABUSE
IN SAME SEX RELATIONSHIPS, HEALTH CARE REFORM FOR QUEERS, POLITICS OF
SEXUALITY IN ETHNIC STUDIES, PEDAGOGY, QUEER SEXUALITY IN THE SOCIAL
SCIENCES, QUEER GEOGRAPHIES, LESBIAN BEREAVEMENT, QUEER FILM,
HETEROSEXISM,
QUEER THEORY
Please send submissions and queries to Queer Coalitions, c/o Marcy
Knopf,
Miami University, Department of English, Bachelor Hall, Oxford, Ohio
45056
DEADLINE: JANUARY 16, 1996
PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE
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Is there anybody out there who may need the special assistance of a
Latin American (Peruvian) video director/producer and graphic
designer and photographer specializing in the themes of the
environment, indigenous peoples and women and who can speak both
Spanish and English fluently. Her last assignment was producing and
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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS. The 2nd International Interdisciplinary
Conference
on the Environment will be held in Newport Rhode Island, June 15-20,
1996.
You may participate as session organizer, presenter of one or two
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chair, discussant, or observer. The deadline for paper submission
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Greenwood Publishing Group is seeking book
proposals for the series "Contributions in Philosophy."
Manuscripts in feminist philosophy are particularly
desired, however, proposals in any area of the
humanities are welcome.
Proposals should include a summary of the book's scope,
a sample chapter, table of contents, and a curriculum
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From: "Jay A. Labinger"
Subject: SLS meeting chairs
For people planning to attend the November SLS meeting: I still need
chairs
for a few sessions, as follows:
Friday 10:00 am: E. The New Pedagogy
Friday 2:45 pm: B. Visual Images I: Photography and Painting
Friday 4:45 pm: E. S-F and Fantasy
Saturday 2:00 pm: A. Visual Images II: Rhetoric in Visual Format
Saturday 3:45 pm: C. Popularizing Science
plus there will probably be one or two sessions added for late
submissions.
If you would like to help out, please let me know right away, and tell
me
which session(s) you would prefer. Thanks.
Jay Labinger
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The third annual conference of the Society for Philosophy in the
Contemporary World will explore philosophy's interaction with everyday
life
and the impact of daily living on philosophers. The 1996 annual
conference
will be August 9-15 1996
YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park Colorado
Papers due March 1, 1996. Works in progress are invited.
For more information contact
Sally Scholz, Assistant Professor
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Villanova University
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 19:20:20 -0400
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Date sent: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 17:36:36 +0000
From: "Dr. Seyoum Zegiorgis"
Subject: International Conference on Information for Sustainable
Development
To: Multiple recipients of list RURWMN-L
Send reply to: Rural Women Discussion Group
Originally to: geoglife@tamvm1.tamu.edu
To all our conference participants, paper presenters and interested
persons:
Following is an e-mail version of what we are working on. Please
re-post
the message to as many addresses as you see fit. We would appreciate
it
very much.
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This is a general information. Detailed program schedule, hotel and
transportation details will be available soon to those who register.
Reviews of papers is underway. The program committee has agreed to
extend
the deadline until September 15, 1995, and if you are interested in
submitting a paper for consideration, you are still able to send us
your
proposal. See you in Dallas.
____________________________________________________________________________
____________
Council on Information for Sustainable Development
1995 International Conference on Information for Sustainable
Development
Dallas, November 30-December 2
Seyoum S. Zegiorgis, Ph.D., Conference Coordinator
An exceptional educational opportunity serving key policy makers,
academicians, scholars, professionals, public administrators, political
scientists, Social scientists, information professionals, and all those
who
believe they have a stake in the world they live in or can make changes
benefiting the coming generation.
Come join your friends and peers November 30-December 2, 1995
in Dallas, Texas--Home of The Dallas Cowboys!!!
1. Theme: Celebrating the Right to Know
To elevate today's less developed countries to become developed
productive
members of the community of nations requires fundamental and
comprehensive
change in the way information is accessed and disseminated. This
transformation--already attempted by various means--involves
reinventing
international aid for development so that nations could sustain present
socioeconomic development for future generations, providing hope and
environmentally sustainable communities for their diverse population.
To
accomplish this transformation, it will be necessary to develop and
provide
knowledge abundant in the Western World that informs policy and serves
practical applications of theory. With the vast network of connected
systems, current exponential growth of information and the equally
rapid
speed of disseminating it, a democratic society's inherent fundamental
right
to know seems observed calling for a celebration.
2. General Information
The 1995 Annual CISD Conference will be held Thursday, November 30,
through
Saturday, December 2, in Dallas, Texas. The program will consist
primarily
of presentations selected by a program committee. The Program
Committee
encourages variety in session formats. Program sessions are generally
scheduled for 1 and 1/2 hour periods. Roundtable sessions last 40
minutes.
Sessions requiring more than 1 and 1/2 hours will be scheduled for
either
the first period of the day or the last period. These sessions are
scheduled for 2 hours.
Any one may submit a proposal for consideration to the program
committee,
C/O Dr. Seyoum S. Zegiorgis, at the above address. To assist the
proposer
to make an appropriate choice as to the program committee's primary
areas of
interest, information is provided in the Areas of Interest Section.
All
proposals are reviewed by at least two members of the program committee,
and
reviewers, as a rule, follow the guidelines in our "Guide to
Reviewers."
The following criteria apply to proposals regardless of presentation
formats:
(a) choice of problem, problem significance, importance of issue/topic,
relevance to the ICISD program theme;
(b) relevance of topic to CISD;
(c) contribution to the field (information science/sustainable
development,
theoretical/practical significance);
(d) theoretical/conceptual framework and grounding (rationale,
literature
review, framework);
(e) methodology, mode of inquiry, soundness, rigor and adequacy of
discussion of the problem;
(f) execution of study (technical merit, analysis, adequacy, quality of
data, scientific merit);
(g) development of ideas, thoroughness of presentation, relationships
of
conclusions to findings, generalizability of findings);
(h) written proposal (abstract, quality of writing/expression, clarity,
logic, organization);
(I) appeal and suitability to our national and international audience
(journal article quality).
Please indicate your presentation technology needs on a separate sheet
with
your proposal.
Only first authors of papers and other presentations will appear in the
Program's Participant Index; co-authors will be listed in the text of
the
Program. Authors of papers, organizers of symposia, and presenters or
organizers of other types of sessions should include on the cover sheet
3
one- or two-word descriptors that will be used in the subject index of
the
Program.
3. Session Formats
The following list of session formats is discussed to be useful to
those
considering alternatives to the standard paper presentation session
formats.
The Program Committee assigns the papers to the particular session
format
requested by the author(s). To propose a format, the author(s) should
submit a description and rationale for the requested format. The
following
list, of course, is a representative list of varieties of Annual
Conference
presentations ICISD plans to include in the sessions.
Paper Session: Intended to provide each author an opportunity to
present an
abbreviated version of his or her paper, paper sessions allow authors
at
least a 45-minute presentation. At every session, discussants have 15
minutes to present a prepared reaction. Then the next 30 minutes are
set
aside for an open discussion involving the audience. Most of the
sessions
in the ICISD annual are paper sessions.
Roundtable: These allow maximum interaction with the presenters by
eliminating the formal didactic presentation. Individual presenters
are
assigned numbered tables in a large meeting room where interested
persons
may gather for discussion with the presenter about his or her paper or
project. This format is particularly appropriate for papers addressing
topics best pursued through extensive discussion. Authors are requested
to
bring copies of the full paper or summaries and to remain available for
discussion throughout the 40-minute session.
Panel Discussion: Presenters and discussants do not prepare papers.
They
make brief introductory remarks before engaging in ad hoc give-and-take
for
which they may have prepared themselves but which can not be predicted
or
entirely controlled. The audience will be allowed to participate at the
end
for questions and discussion with the panel or in small groups.
MISSION STATEMENT, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
The strongest argument for socioeconomic advancement while protecting
the
environment and keeping the global ecological balance is the ethical
need to
guarantee to future generations opportunities similar to the ones
previous
generations have enjoyed. This guarantee is the foundation of
Sustainable
Development. The concept is based on the recognition that a nation
cannot
reach its economic goals without also achieving social and
environmental
goals--that is, universal education and employment opportunity,
universal
health and reproductive care, equitable access to and distribution of
resources, stable populations, and a sustained natural resource base.
Sustainability, however, makes little sense if it means sustaining life
opportunities that are miserable and indigent. The paradigm of
sustainability values human life itself without preference of one life
over
another merely because people can produce material goods. Sustainable
Development rather is based on the universalism of life's claims--no
newborn
child should be doomed to a short life or a miserable one merely
because
that child happens to be born in the "wrong class" or in the
"wrong country"
or to be of the "wrong sex."
The universalism of life claims--a powerful idea that provides the
philosophical foundations for many contemporary policies--underlies the
search for meeting basic human needs--education, health care, and the
development of potential capabilities. It is the protection of all
basic
human rights--economic, social as well as political--because the right
to
food is as sacrosanct as the right to vote. It also demands
non-discrimination between all people, irrespective of gender,
religion,
race or ethnic origin. The concept calls for equality of opportunities,
not
equality of income--though in a civilized society a basic minimum
income
should be guaranteed to everyone. As the pioneering feminist, Mary
Wollstonecraft (1792), wrote "It is justice, not charity, that is
wanting in
the world." Sustainable Development, therefore, is using the
natural,
human, and technological resources to insure that members of present as
well
as future generations can attain a high degree of health and well
being,
economic security, and a say in shaping their futures while maintaining
the
integrity of the ecological system upon which all life and production
depends.
By wholly accepting the above principles of Sustainable Development,
the
International Council on Information for Sustainable Development
(ICISD)
sets out to make the present as well as the coming generations aware of
the
responsibilities in the judicious use and stewardship of today's
resources--whether natural or human--by facilitating the dissemination
of
information on Sustainable Development. ICISD also recognizes the
fact
that the achievement of sustainable development is inextricably bound
up
with the equality of access to and availability of information to all
on
demand. As the essence and test of sustainable development is the
awareness
and concern for common survival, the concept of sustainablity is
greatly
endangered unless policies that deny poor nations equal access to
available
global information, thus inhibiting the achievement of global justice
and
equity, are changed. Until then, global sustainability will always
remain
an elusive goal. A clear and definite way of achieving the goals and
objectives of development that is sustainable is to declare and bring
about
the badly needed change in information policy--unrestricted access--that
is
inhibiting the socioeconomic growth of peoples of the less developed
nations.
Reasons Why You Have to Attend This Conference
1. Plenary Sessions With Leaders in the Profession 2. Informative
Concurrent Sessions. 3. Symposia, Panel Discussions, Roundtable
Sessions,...,etc. 4. Networking With Professionals in Various Fields.
5.
Pre-conference and After-conference Tours of the Dallas/Fort Worth
Metroplex.
Schedule of Events
(Detailed Conference Program will be Available to registrants soon)
Thursday, November 30, 1995
Pre-conference registration,
Pre-Conference Tours of selected sites in Dallas/Fort Worth Area,
Reception for Speakers and Presenters.
Friday, December 1, 1995
Formal Registration, Breakfast, Early Bird Business Sessions,
Plenary Sessions, Conference Sessions, Exhibits Open
Attendee Reception (Keynote Speaker, Hors d'oeuvres/Cash Bar,
Entertainment).
Saturday, December 2, 1995
Breakfast, Plenary Session, Concurrent Sessions, Luncheon,
Panel Discussions and Q&A Sessions, Closing Address,
Dallas by Night--Tour of the West End Historic District
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 16:23:43 -0700
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From: Stephen Ogden
Subject: Att'n Jay Labinger only.
In-Reply-To: <199508252223.PAA16935@ferrari.sfu.ca> from
"Jay A. Labinger" at
Aug 25, 95 03:10:02 pm
Jay -- can you e-mail me directly @ ogden.sfu.ca
Txs
Stephen
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Comments: To: latin-l@psuvm.bitnet, literary@ucf1vm.bitnet
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