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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: w@panix.com, Cyberculture <cyberculture@zacha.org>
Subject: Fwd: MIT students' "computer-generated gibberish" accepted at science
conf. (fwd)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:57:03 -0400 (EDT)
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