Most of the students entering College this fall, members of the Class of 2011, were born in 1989. For them, Alvin Ailey, Andrei Sakharov, Huey Newton, Emperor Hirohito, Ted Bundy, Abbie Hoffman, and Don the Beachcomber have always been dead.
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2. Humvees, minus the artillery, have always been available to the public.
11.Rap music has always been mainstream.
23.Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM.
42.Women’s studies majors have always been offered on campus.
44.Thanks to MySpace and Facebook, autobiography can happen in real time.
49.Virtual reality has always been available when the real thing failed.
58.They get much more information from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert than from the newspaper.
63. Avatars have nothing to do with Hindu deities.
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