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  1. Did Mitt Romney Get His Game Changer? (The Note)

    Thu, 19 Jul 2012

    on Wednesday. And his about-face on whether his healthcare provisions are a penalty or a tax is reminiscent of ' George Orwell 's '1984' or the best efforts of Pravda at the height of the Soviet period,' the former House speaker says

  2. Report: London No Safer for All Its CCTV Cameras

    Thu, 23 Feb 2012

    installed in the mid 1980s. Privacy activists are worried that Britain will become the bleak totalitarian society George Orwell painted in his classic novel "1984," where citizens were spied on and personal freedom sacrificed for the benefit

  3. Supreme Court rules warrant needed for GPS tracking

    Mon, 23 Jan 2012

    to such high-tech tracking. The case, which during November oral arguments had prompted justices' references to George Orwell 's futuristic novel 1984 and to "Big Brother" government, ensures that police cannot use GPS to continuously track

  4. New Orwellian-Themed Santorum Ad Takes Aim At 'Establishment' and Romney

    Wed, 18 Jan 2012

    set to debut in South Carolina tomorrow. The ad, which will run in 60 and 90-second versions, is an homage to George Orwell featuring automaton-like voters marching single file to a voting booth with flickering images of Mitt Romney blasting

  5. The 'Just in Case You're a Criminal Someday' Act

    Mon, 8 Aug 2011

    you commit a crime someday. This is no casual reference to the "Big Brother is Watching You" dystopian world of George Orwell 's "1984;" it is the reality of H.R. 1981 , a bill in Congress that orders Internet companies to build vast digital

  6. India Wins: Beats Pakistan in World Cup Cricket Collision

    Wed, 30 Mar 2011

    tweeting and Facebooking about for nearly a week, is much more than an eight-hour sporting event. Serious sport, George Orwell once said, is "war without the shooting," as Time http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599

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  1. Hello, Big Brother: Digital sensors are watching us

    Tue, 25 Jan 2011

    recorded and time-stamped. Several developments have converged to push the monitoring of human activity far beyond what George Orwell imagined. Low-cost digital cameras, motion sensors and biometric readers are proliferating just as the cost of

  2. Vanessa Woods' "Bonobo Handshake"

    Fri, 4 Jun 2010

    Mothers could choose to be tested with their infants. Infants could participate in the research. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell , the worst part of the dystopia wasn't Big Brother always watching or the drab postwar world or the dreary work. It

  3. Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles

    Sat, 5 Sep 2009

    Amazon.com is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July. When Amazon erased the books from Kindles

  4. Big Brother Is Watching Your Blackberry

    Mon, 27 Jul 2009

    Well, consider a recent incident involving the Internet bookseller Amazon and two works by -- ironically enough -- George Orwell . Amazon had been selling the title s, "1984" and "Animal Farm," to owners of its Kindle reader, the special

  5. Amazon.com CEO apologizes for Orwell incident

    Fri, 24 Jul 2009

    Amazon.com CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos has apologized to Kindle customers for deleting pirated copies of George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm from their e-reader devices. Kindle users were surprised last week to find that Orwell works they

  6. Read Excerpt: 'Food, Inc.'

    Tue, 9 Jun 2009

    didn't play it safe, hold back, or write for the sake of writing. Writers like Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, George Orwell , Arthur Miller, Hunter S. Thompson -- they were willing to take risks and go against the grain. My writing deals

  7. OnLive: Will it Beat Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii at Their Own Game?

    Tue, 24 Mar 2009

    men don't need PS3s and Xboxes to play insanely gorgeous games? Someone pinch me, I feel like I'm living in a George Orwell book. Darren: Right, and for all those jokers who pose as pundits proclaiming the death of PC gaming (surprise

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  1. September 9, 1993: Middle East Tension

    Fri, 9 Sep 2011

    than a few among the Palestinians and Israelis tonight who feel a certain kinship. With the fictional characters of George Orwell 's bitterly as satirical novel 1984. The world you may remember was divided in broken the three continents two of

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  2. This Week (10.25.09)

    Sun, 25 Oct 2009

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