In the United Kingdom, new communications systems are in many ways more advanced than those in the United States, owing to the UK's history (at least until the recent passage of the telecom reform bill in the US) of less restrictive regulations. ... China, while soaking up new technology like a sponge, is also attempting to control the flow of content over the Internet (having already experienced the world's first "revolution by fax" with the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, in which authorities were unable to censor dissidents' fax communications). ...

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Twenty-one years later, the American Psychological Association published its 1993 report, "Violence & Youth," and concluded, "The greatest predictor of future violent behavior is a previous history of violence." ... San Francisco school system began a "Understanding Homosexuality" studies in its Public High School system in 1989, Boston began "Race Relations" in 1980. ...

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Both ECHO, founded by Stacy Horn in 1989, and WELL have exclusively female "conferences" on-line and promote an environment without flaming. ... As one member described the newsgroup, "`I'm part of one of the longest-running slumber parties in history.'" ...

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