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From: gpope@iat.holonet.net (george pope)
Subject: trial postings newspapers ghana
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:29:55 GMT

African Newspapers                              10/4/92 

Tro-Tros-Net Electronic Publishers is a bulletin board at and 
which is dedicated to day to day communications and information 
exchanges particularly with those areas in third world which are 
notoriously neglected by big time media except on occasion of 
catastrophe, air liner crashes, famines, civil wars etc. 

Files will be sent to you automatically on receipt of mail 
addressed as follows: 

        filename@tro-tros-net.mailer.holonet.net 

Available publications (d)aily,(w)eekly,(m)onthly,(s)ingle: 

filename   publication         city, country, numbers    bytes(k) 
================================================================= 
troinfo    tro-tros-net(s)     San Mateo, CA, Oct 4 1992        3 

ghc914     Ghanaian Chron.(w), Accra, GH, Sept 7..14 1992     110 

Uh#692     Uhuru(m)            Accra, GH, V 4 No 6 1992       347 

pion_msc   Pioneer(d),         Kumasi, GH, misc                34 

These are trial postings. Once regular data flows are organized 
Tro-Tros-Net will provide low cost electronic publication of 
newspapers and other works from around the world so that we can 
all get to know each other better.              

George Pope, gpope@holonet.net, 2280 Bunker Hill Dr., San Mateo, 
CA 94402, voice 415 574 2799
From: ecurtis@orion.oac.uci.edu (Evans Curtis)
Subject: Re: PEOPLE FROM THE CARIBBEAN
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 5 Oct 92 18:20:17 GMT

In article <60882@mimsy.umd.edu> rfrance@umiacs.umd.edu (Robert B France) writes:
>In article <92276.101033NATHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> NATHC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:
>>Nathalee Brown, live from Jamaica.
>
>Does this mean your post is coming directly from JA - or are you a J'can
>in New York? Would like to know who in the caribbean has access to the
>newsgroup.
>

Yes, this had me intrigued.


Evans Curtis
Office of Academic Computing
University of California - Irvine
From: padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: States of U.S.A.
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:14:24 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <1992Oct5.143540.22576@lgc.com> ajj@zycor.lgc.com (Andrew Jackson) writes:

>NEW ENGLAND (listed roughly north to south):
>Maine
>	Capital: Augusta
>	Larger Cities: Portland

Bangor, Lewiston, and Auburn are all larger than Augusta, but they're all
pretty small.

>New Hampshire
>	Capital: Concord
>	Larger Cities: Manchester

And Nashua, Portsmouth.

>Conneticut
>	Capital: Hartford
>	Larger Cities: New Haven	Not sure which is largest city

Hartford is bigger than New Haven, but Bridgeport is bigger than them both.

Don't forget that Worcester, MA is the second-largest city in New England.
And Providence, RI is the largest metro area without any major sports
franchise, as well as being the second-largest METRO AREA in New England.

>MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES (listed roughly north to south):
>New York
>	Capital: Albany
>	Larger Cities: New York, Buffalo, Rochester

Also Syracuse, Yonkers

>Virginia
>	Capital: Richmond
>	Larger Cities: Norfolk, Alexandria 	Not sure which is largest

Virginia Beach is the largest city in Virginia. Norfolk is second.

>Florida
>	Capital: Tallahassee
>	Larger Cities: Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, St.Petersburg,
>			Orlando

Jacksonville being the biggest, of course.

>Ohio
>	Capital: Columbus
>	Larger Cities: Cleveland, Cinncinnati

Columbus is the biggest city in Ohio.

>Wyoming (Least Populous state ~500 000)
>	Capital: Cheyenne
>	Larger Cities: Laramie

Cheyenne is the largest city in Wyoming.

>Idaho
>	Capital: Boise
>	Larger Cities: Pocatello	Think this is the largest

Boise is the biggest, I think.

>Alaska (Largest state by area)
>	Capital: Juneau
>	Largest Cities: Anchorage

Also Fairbanks

Peter!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: stephen@mont.cs.missouri.edu (Stephen Montgomery-Smith)
Subject: Questions about States
Keywords: states questions fun
Organization: University of Missouri
Date:  6 Oct 92 08:09:32 GMT

I enjoy asking people these questions.  Does anyone know some other
questions like these?

What is the smallest state?

What is the southernmost state?

What is the largest state?

What is the state with the longest name?

What is the eastmost state?  (This is a stupid trick question.)

Which state has more other states around it than any other state?  Name
the surrounding states.

Which four states all meet at a point?

How many states have a straight line as part of their border?

Stephen

Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,soc.women,alt.sex
From: villa@cod.nosc.mil (Felipe Villa Jr.)
Subject: Re: Promiscuity  (DL ?)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:29:25 GMT

In article <1992Jun19.100315.6891@trl.oz.au> louis@medici.trl.OZ.AU (Louis Denger) writes:
>From: louis@medici.trl.OZ.AU (Louis Denger)
>Subject: Re: Promiscuity  (DL ?)
>Date: 19 Jun 92 10:03:15 GMT
>From article <1992Jun12.180848.21872@lmpsbbs.mot.com>, by bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris):
>> In article <1992Jun9.173558.4301@usl.edu> sgs1679@usl.edu (Sudhindranath Sira G) writes:
>> 
>> )My query is simple ---- if promiscuity is acceptable and
>> )flourishing in a society, does it have any right to call itself 
>> )civilized ?
>> 
>> Well, you need to track down the authority in responsible of granting
>> societies 'rights' and ask them this question.
>> 
>> Practical observations indicate that all societies call themselves
>> 'civilized' - it's always the 'other guy' with different customs who is a
>> barbarian.
>
>What about the health hazards (VD)? (( AIDS))
>This seems to transcend any ratiocination about ""civilized""
>
>Regards
>Louis
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine)
Subject: Re: Inches, Ounces, Fahre
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 01:43:38 GMT

In article <4984.322.uupcb@wugate.wustl.edu> carl.camurca%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Carl Camurca)  writes:
>M'K>I'm curious as to why the move got killed.  Another curious thing: if you b
>M'K>something like Kool-Aid, it makes 2 quarts.  But if you buy something
>M'K>like Coke/Pepsi, it's sold in liters.  Interesting, eh?
>
>It's international and wouldn't survive with that antique system...
>
>M'K>>By the way, why are all U.S. currency notes the same ugly
>M'K>>green color?  Don't get me wrong, I'll keep the bills I
>M'K>>have.
>
>M'K>Because the feds, in their infinite wisdom, decided that puke green is the
>M'K>hardest color to make.  Supposedly, you can not make that color normally,
>M'K>because you have to add 'secret ingredients' to get it that color.
>
>Ox blood? Pig bile? Blue grass extract?

They pick every third blade of grass in a field in NJ on the fourth full
moon of the Year while chanting old Elvis songs to a reggae beat.  Then
they take the clippings and soak it in a vat of Green Kool-Aid that is
sold in Litres, followed by a rinsing in Diet Coke (tm) distributed in
quart containers.  All this while listening to Musak in a vat kept
precisely at 67.3 F.  The stuff left is the dye.  Simple, no?

:) :):):):):):):):)

Oh, I forgot, you inject the dye into a potatoe (grown in Dan Quayle's
garden...).
-- 
Brent L. Irvine					"Dyslexics of the World
irvine@decwa.ece.uiuc.edu			UNTIE!"		- Kral Maxr

Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: jyc@leo.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis)
Subject: Re: America has culture?
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: 27 Sep 92 22:20:23 GMT

silva@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Holly Silva) writes:

>	The Algonquin Roundtable, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams,
>Nora Zeal Thurston, Eugene O'Neill, Isadora Duncan, early Hollywood,
>Cole Porter, Edgar Allan Poe and Faulkner, Mark Twain, the Arts and 
>Crafts movement, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, Desiderata ...   

   As an American, I would like publicly hereby to disown Desiderata.  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.vietnamese,soc.culture.yugoslavia
From: bernd@cc.uow.edu.au (Bernd Wechner)
Subject: Make a friend today, send a postcard to Oz ...
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 04:34:05 GMT

I just started to stick some old postcards on the wall at home and found
it growing into a very interesting collage, or wallpaper of sorts even. A 
great deal of interest value and a dash of nostalgia for me personally as 
well. Now although I had a fair stack, I was a little surprised at how small 
a postcard is and how large a wall is. 

So, I'd like to invite you to send me a postcard for which I will:

a) be eternally grateful
b) send one back (if desired)
c) invite you around for a cup of tea, a chat and even to stay a few days 
   (if you like ...)

Just think, you'll make your mark on my wall, and my life, and maybe
even make a friend for life. Or then again, maybe just a postcard for
your own wall ;-).

To join the revolution, just mail a postcard to me here:

Bernd Wechner
5 Charles Avenue
Minnamurra 2532
Australia

Remembering to include your own name and address if you like and see
what interesting things you can add to that. 

All the best then, and here's hoping we have some friendly people with
some motivation in the audience tonight ;-).

Ciao,

Bernd.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,talk.politics.misc,talk.environment,alt.activism,soc.culture.african.american,dc.general
From: jamie@sirius.digital.co.jp (James Lyall)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.japan
Subject: Currencies...
Date: 5 Oct 92 07:24:12 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.usa
Distribution: soc
Organization: Digital Electronics Corp., Osaka, Japan


First of all, if there is an appropriate forum for discussing currency
exchange, could someone direct me to it??


I am a Canadian, working in Japan, and planning to travel in Asia next year
with American currency...  I am wondering what would be the best plan:

1.  Hold onto my yen, (which is now at an alltime high) and hope it gets
    even stronger.

2.  Convert to Canadian dollars (which is VERY low right now) and sometime
    before travelling (next May) buy American travellers checks.

3.  Buy American dollars now, and hold them until next year.

What with the economic and political uncertainty in Canada and the US, I
have been leaning towards option #1.  However, I am wondering if I ought
to be taking advantage of the strong yen, and converting to other currencies
now.  I would appreciate some net wisdom!

Do any Canadians want to predict what the Oct. 26 referendum is doing and
will do to the CA$??

Jamie

jamie@nanko.digital.co.jp
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: frank2@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za (FRANK D N)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Woops: Re: States of U.S.A.
Date: 6 Oct 92 08:45:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: underdog.frank2.24
Organization: Wits Electrical Engineering (Undergrads).

Yesterday I posted a response to the original query, thinking for some 
reason that the USA really had 52 states. I have since been unable to find 
any reference that supports this - so I can only conclude that I was 
embarrasingly incorrect. 

Apologies Wouter.

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From: harrity@sumax.seattleu.edu (Zak)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Retraction of (America has culture?)
Date: 30 Sep 92 01:57:46 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA

In article <templef.34.0@columbia.dsu.edu> templef@columbia.dsu.edu (Fred Temple) writes:
>I recently posted a statement to the effect that
>American culture is an oxymoron (contradiction in terms).
>
>I have come to the conclusion that I made a foolish statement.

                               ...etc.

My my Fred, this was a surprise.  If you're sincere and don't post a

			NOT!

tomorrow, then it's pretty big of you, I must say.  

	Perhaps one intrinsic part of American culture is our having had
it up to here with (usually European, specifically English) people coming
out with that trite and pathetic cliche' about American culture being a
contradiction in terms, and hahaha, isn't that hysterical. 

	Our collective knee-jerk reaction to that kind of statement has
become an embedded element of our culture as a nation, every bit as much
as, for some, perhaps many Brits, it's become a part of the culture to
speak with disdain of all things American ("Uncivilized colonials",
"Yankees....") or Australian ("Bloody convicts...."). 

	Now, be silent all would-be flamers from England...I but observe. 
And you could justifiably point out that we Americans, many times, mock
all things British, etc...in other words, it's become somewhat of a
national pastime on both sides of the Atlantic.

Cheers,

--
Daniel John Kelly-Harrity ---------| |--------- "Sooner spit in a 
Seattle University ----------------| |---------  Wolf's Eye,
Seattle, Washington ---------------| |---------  than cross an
USA 98122 -------------------------| |---------  Aes Sedai."

  "Welcome to All Things Scottish...If it's not Scottish, It's *CRAP*!"

Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,alt.politics.elections,soc.culture.african.american
From: vamcnair@eng.auburn.edu (Valerie A. McNair)
Subject: Re: Pres Bush is Coming to Penn State
Keywords: cum
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 20:44:10 GMT

In article <BvF0ox.9BA@agora.rain.com> robart@agora.rain.com (Robert Barton) writes:
>In article <92273.161738FKR@psuvm.psu.edu> <FKR@psuvm.psu.edu>Fred Rozenblad writes:
>>
>>I have cums once a month. The chem dept here offers 4 cums every month and
>>the grad cmte suggests their grad students try to take one a month. I have
>>2 years to pass 6 exams. That works out to be 6 cums passed in 2 years.
>>I think I can do that :-)
>
>
>  Probably, after all many men can cum more than once per day, so
>6 times in 2 years should be no problem at all.

I was wondering if Penn State is a "conservative" campus or "liberal".  I am
here at Auburn University, and to be "liberal" is just like committing a crime.
I am not surprised that Bush has not come here to speak yet. As for Perot, I
hope that America will make an intelligent decision, but that's wishful
thinking huh.  Good luck on your exams!

Valerie M
 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: jon@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis)
Subject: Re: Americans! *smile*
Organization: Jon's Cafe Americain
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 19:47:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.004158.26266@morrow.stanford.edu>
silva@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Holly Silva) writes: 
           

> Jon Corelis writes:
>>
>>                          ...   never since the day I was born has the
>>flag of patriotism in my country been run up for any causes other than
>>the suppression of progressive dissent, the enforcement of obience to
>>establishment dictates, and the furtherance of brutal and selfish
>>overseas military adventures.
> 	
>	And this is very much the fault of our self-hating, craven
>Liberal wing. ...               

   It takes an astonishing intellectual nimbleness to construct or to
follow a train of logic purporting to demonstrate that it is American
leftists and liberals who are responsible for the ideology that enabled,
supported, and continues to praise America's famous victory over
Grenada, heroic conquest of Panama, and altruistic invasion of Syria.  
-- 


Jon Corelis               jon@lindy.stanford.edu
Stanford University       BITNET:  BR.JGC@RLG.STANFORD.EDU
From: d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Americans! *smile*
Date: 28 Sep 92 12:39:18 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

In article <1992Sep28.004158.26266@morrow.stanford.edu> silva@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Holly Silva) writes:
>	i.e., the view of all forms of Swedish-style socialism as
>intrinsically wonderful, without considering the inapplicability of
>much of what they've constructed to our much larger, more polyglot
>society.

  *What* Swedish-style socialism?

>|| Holly Silva			I have nothing terribly clever to say||

-bertil-
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: kemnitz@netcom.com (Greg Kemnitz)
Subject: Re: Americans! *smile*
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 22:08:14 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <1992Sep29.190508.13401@email.tuwien.ac.at> zach@csdec1.tuwien.ac.at writes:
>
>I think that was exactly the point Matthew was trying to make:
>Europe *has* seen what it leads to and that is why it is *now*
>regarded as "the height of bad manners, boorish and dangerous."

But like the Energizer Bunny, it's still going, and going, and going.

I once read an article describing how Democracy and Free Enterprize had finally
won in Europe, and the old nationalisms would fade away in favor of a European
identity in a prosperous continent which would be the height of civilization.

The article was written in 1895.

Still going...

>-- 
>Richard Zach                      [zach@csdec1.tuwien.ac.at]
>Technische Universitaet Wien, Institut fuer Computersprachen
>Resselgasse 3/185.2,     A-1040 Vienna,       Austria/Europe

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.jewish,alt.politics.usa.misc,alt.politics.usa.constitution
From: dzk@cs.brown.edu (Danny Keren)
Subject: Re: Role Of Jewish Media In Shaping Our Politics
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 04:15:04 GMT


Hey, shouldn't it be "Zionist Media"? OOOPS!

And what's happening here anyway? Schmidling posted nearly the same thing
some time ago. Shame on you, Arfie!

If Bush manages to win with these guys on his side it would certainly
be his greatest achievment :-)!

-Danny Keren.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: tdlg9831@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tracey Dianne Layng)
Subject: Re: post from soc.culture.lebanon
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:02:04 GMT

This is in response to the guilt trip laid on Americans at the end of the
soc.culture.lebanon article. And yes, it is a flame.

It is true that the US is a superpower, but it is not our responsiblity to
look out for the rest of the world. We, first and foremost, are a country that
is concerned with itself and its own problems just like every other country.
As a country, we try to protect our own rears first before we worry about
anybody else. Sure, we are apt to support a country that has something that we
need over a country that doesn't, is that so different from other countries?
We do things that are not quite on the up and up to promote our needs.
Sometimes that backfires on us, and sometimes we do things we shouldn't anyway.
I am not saying that it's right, but I would challenge anyone to name for me
ONE country that does not do the same thing to get what it wants.

We are not a charity nor are we the world's baby sitter to ensure that everyone
plays nicely and doesn't steal each other's toys. We seem to be expected to
rise up at every instance of injustice in the world and to be a perfect country
that is to respond to the needs of other countries because they ask. If we
don't respond we are yelled at for being cheap and biased in favor of one
country or another. If we do respond, then we are accused of being interfering
and trying to pust Western ideas on to other countries. I am tired of seeing
the US stuck in this "Catch-22" situation.

The US has enough problems of its own. We have hungry and ill children. Our
infant death rate is one of the highest in the world. We have people who live
on the streets because there is no where for them to go. We have middle class
people trying to support their children, but cannot because they have no job or
their jobs don't pay enough to put food on the table. We are just like any
other country in that respect. We have a lower class in the inner cities who
need to be taken care of, too. I often think that if we would take the money we
loan to other countries (who often then criticize us) and use it at home, we
could change those problems. The US used to be an isolationist country before
the World Wars, and I wonder if we shouldn't reassert some of that isolationism
now.

But no, we give millions of dollars of foreign aid when we have children
starving and dying right here. 

Don't you tell me what I need to vote for or what I need to do. I know exactly
what I need to vote for. More at home, less abroad. I think that the other
countries of the world should look at solving their own problems rather than
relying on someone else to do it for them. And I think the US should stop
sticking its nose in where it doesn't belong.

Heaven knows that no one is going to help the US with its horrendus problems.
We are a country, not a saint.


Tracey
UIUC



(Don't tell me that I should travel outside the US for I have traveled to
Europe and Southeast Asia.)

Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: dbrooks@penge.osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: Retraction of (America has culture?)
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:16:48

templef@columbia.dsu.edu (Fred Temple) writes:

> I have come to the conclusion that I made a foolish statement.

[etc.]

An elegant and handsome apology, Fred, much appreciated.

Understand the context: the "US/culture oxymoron" jibe has been repeated
too often in this newsgroup, and those of us who admire and adore the
U.S.'s cultural achievements (incidentally, and not that it makes any
difference, I'm British) may be getting annoyed at it.
--
David Brooks					dbrooks@osf.org
Open Software Foundation			uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
Four more months!  Four more months!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: keyser@oliver.sun.ac.za (P.W. Keyser)
Subject: States of U.S.A.
Reply-To: keyser@cs.sun.ac.za
Organization: Universiteit van Stellenbosch, R.S.A.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 09:06:46 GMT


Hi,

Can anyone please give me a list of all the states of the U.S.A., with
perhaps some major cities in each state. I know their are 50 states, but 
I do not have a map of the U.S.A. and I only get to 41 states (I do not
know if even they are correct).

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

--
  Wouter

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