From today’s New York Times:
H. Donald Wilson, who prepared the original business plan for what became Mead Data Central and its pioneering Lexis-Nexis database, died on Nov. 12 at his home in Mitchellville, Md. He was 82.
Nothing has changed debate as much as affordable access to full-text databases.


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snakesstillhere 11.25.06 at 7:09 pm
i dont know how i could have done debate without my proquest passwords.