1. By 2000, about ____________ percent of American households were connected to the internet.
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2. The only woman to have won a Golden Globe for Best Director is ____________, for her 1983 film, Yentl.
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3. In 2016, for the first time ever, Americans consumed more ____________ than soda.
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—Steven Johnson
Answers: 50 / Barbra streisand / bottled water
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Reader Response
Conor Friedersdorf is gathering readers’ recollections of the year 1968. Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe was a college senior during the Memphis garbage workers’ strike, and at the time, he was skeptical of nonviolence:
I jumped into the garbage strike, going on marches, seeking to organize and educate others. I was part of [a] group of students who went to churches on Sunday mornings, standing up to interrupt worship to shout, “Support the garbage strike!” We would usually be escorted out, but a few people were sympathetic. I retired from the ministry in 2017, and I have often wondered what I would have done as a worship leader if such interruptions had come in my time. Fortunately, none ever did. I’d like to think it was because Oakhurst Presbyterian was such a progressive church, but the issue remains in my heart.
Many of us felt that there was a possibility of victory in the garbage strike, and when Dr. King agreed to come to Memphis to support the strike, we had ambivalent feelings.
Find out how Nibs’s views changed, and share your own memories here.
Verbs
Bubble squeezed, FDA founded, system overhauled, genre transformed.
Time of Your Life
Happy birthday to Thibaut (a year younger than the World Wide Web); to Grace (twice the age of Instagram); to Scott’s twin daughters, Helen and Julia (both are twice the age of Facebook); and to our video fellow Brianna, who shares a birthday with our archives editor, Annika (both are one-seventh the age of The Atlantic).