In a 1996 USA Today article, Washington State zoologist John Crane said, " There is no such thing as Bigfoot.

A 1996 British Journal for the History of Science article cites James F. Donnelly for mentioning a 1839 reference to chemical engineering in relation to the production of sulfuric acid.

In 1996, physicist Alan Sokal wrote a nonsensical article entitled " Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity ".

Abu Daoud was allowed safe passage through Israel in 1996 so he could attend a PLO meeting convened in the Gaza Strip for the purpose of rescinding an article in its charter that called for Israel's eradication.

In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies.

The article " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity ", published in the Social Text Spring / Summer 1996 " Science Wars " issue, proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct.

On its date of publication ( May 1996 ), Sokal revealed in Lingua Franca that the article was a hoax, identifying it as " a pastiche of Left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense.

" Nonetheless, despite designating the physicist as a " difficult, uncooperative author ," and noting that such writers were " well known to journal editors ", Social Text published the article in acknowledgment of the author's credentials in the May 1996 Spring / Summer " Science Wars " issue.

In the May 1996 issue of Lingua Franca, in the article " A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ", Sokal revealed that his " Transgressing the Boundaries " was a hoax and concluded that Social Text " felt comfortable publishing an article on quantum physics without bothering to consult anyone knowledgeable in the subject " because of its ideological proclivities and editorial bias.

In April 1996, he wrote an article for the Daily Express where he said: " Those who consented to the surrender made in 1972 will have to think again.

The earliest known reference to the term spamdexing is by Eric Convey in his article " Porn sneaks way back on Web ," The Boston Herald, May 22, 1996, where he said:

In 1996 the British weekly The European carried an article by a French expert stating that " German civil and military intelligence services have been involved in training and equipping the rebels with the aim of cementing German influence in the Balkan area.

All these historical and modern factors combined, Huntington wrote briefly in his Foreign Affairs article and in much more detail in his 1996 book, would lead to a bloody clash between the Islamic and Western civilizations.

The system presented in this article is a minor variation of Gentzen's or Prawitz's formulation, but with a closer adherence to Martin-Löf's description of logical judgments and connectives ( Martin-Löf, 1996 ).

" In a 1996 article in the Los Angeles Times, " Has the Drug War Created an Officer Liars ' Club ?," Joseph D. McNamara, then chief of police of San Jose, said " Not many people took defense attorney Alan M. Dershowitz seriously when he charged that Los Angeles cops are taught to lie at the birth of their careers at the Police Academy.

*" Testilying: Police Perjury and What To Do About It " article originally appearing in the University of Colorado Law Review in 1996

An article detailing their affair ran in a special edition of Playboy in 1996.

* A 1996 New York Times article recounting the story of the bombing and the ensuing trial

A 1996 criminology and urban sociology book, Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities by George L. Kelling and a co-author Catharine Coles, is based on the article but develops the argument in greater detail.

In August 1996, a major British newspaper, The Observer, published an article describing the Penet remailer as a major hub of child pornography, quoting a United States FBI investigator named Toby Tyler as saying that Penet was responsible for between 75 % and 90 % of the child pornography being distributed on the Internet.

" Stereolab were one of the first groups to be called post-rock — in a 1996 article, journalist Angela Lewis applied the " new term " to Stereolab and three other bands who have connections to the group.

The Insider was adapted from " The Man Who Knew Too Much ", an influential article on tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, written by journalist Marie Brenner for the May 1996 issue of Vanity Fair.

The work first appeared as a magazine article by Brin in Wired in late 1996.

According to Roy Andrew Miller ( 1996: 98-99 ), the Clauson – Doerfer critique of Altaic relies exclusively on lexicon, whereas the fundamental evidence for Altaic consists in verbal morphology.

The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

: Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies, 1984, and Ibn Sina and Mysticism, Remarks and Admonitions: Part 4, London: Kegan Paul International, 1996.

; Assault on a constable in the execution of his duty: Section 89 ( 1 ) of the Police Act 1996 provides that it is an offence for a person to assault either:

* 1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.

* 1996 – Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.

The compelling rationale for this was the integral role technology now plays in our lives, which was not present in 1996.

* Randy Shaw, The Activist's Handbook: A Primer for the 1990s and Beyond ( University of California Press, 1996 ).

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

* 1996: Special Event Album of the Year – My Utmost for His Highest

Between 1988 and 1996, there were an average of 133, 735 hospital discharges for amputation per year in the US.

The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part ( 13. 5 % in 1994 ) and reached 15. 7 % in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right.

Law professor Ken Gromley's book The Death of American Virtue reveals that Clinton escaped a 1996 assassination attempt in the Philippines by terrorists working for Osama bin Laden.

* Laham, Nicholas, A Lost Cause: Bill Clinton's Campaign for National Health Insurance ( 1996 )

Pay BBSes such as The WELL and Echo NYC ( now Internet forums rather than dial-up ), ExecPC, PsudNetwork and MindVox ( which folded in 1996 ) were admired for their tight-knit communities and quality discussion forums.

The framework for the Union of Russia and Belarus was set out in the Treaty On the Formation of a Community of Russia and Belarus ( 1996 ), the Treaty on Russia-Belarus Union, the Union Charter ( 1997 ), and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State ( 1999 ).

The IMF granted standby credit in September 1995, but Belarus has fallen off the program and did not receive the second tranche of funding, which had been scheduled for regular intervals throughout 1996.

The BSP won convincingly the pre-term elections in December 1994 with a majority of 125 seats out of the 240 seats in the parliament and despite the mandate is for 4 years, BSP's government collapsed too and remained in office until 1996 due to the economic crysis in Bulgaria.

In February 1996, the ruling ODP / MT merged with several small opposition parties to form the Congress for Democracy and Progress ( CDP ).

* 1996: Harvey Award, Best Syndicated Comic Strip, for Calvin and Hobbes

The World Wide Fund for Nature has stated that 361 animal and plant species have been discovered in Borneo since 1996.

This was their second, having also had one in 1996, which ran for two series on CBBC, The Children's Channel, and Fox Kids.

In 1996 Charlie Ellington at Cambridge University showed that vortices created by many insects ’ wings and non-linear effects were a vital source of lift ; vortices and non-linear phenomena are notoriously difficult areas of hydrodynamics, which has made for slow progress in theoretical understanding of insect flight.

In 1996 Netscape requested that the authors of Berkeley DB improve and extend the library, then at version 1. 86, to suit Netscape's requirements for an LDAP server and for use in the Netscape browser.