David M. Fetterman of Stanford University wrote in his 1997 article Videoconferencing over the Internet: " Videoconferencing technology allows geographically disparate parties to hear and see each other usually through satellite or telephone communication systems ".

In the December 1997 issue of Dragon Magazine, in an article on Garfield's trading card game patent application, it was reported that Garfield is the great-great-grandson of U. S. President James A. Garfield ( 1831 – 81 ), and that his great-uncle invented the paper clip.

In 1997, the acute employment problem at St Helena was brought to the attention of the British public following reports in the tabloid press of a " riot " following an article in the Financial Times describing how the Governor, David Smallman ( 1995 – 1999 ), was jostled by a small crowd who believed he and the Foreign Office had rejected plans to build an airport on the island.

Stephen Hilgartner, the Cornell University science and technologies department chairman, wrote " The Sokal Affair in Context " ( 1997 ) comparing Sokal's hoax to " Confirmational Response: Bias Among Social Work Journals " ( 1990 ), an article by William M. Epstein published in Science, Technology & Human Values.

Although she was quoted by a 1997 Time magazine article as saying she was germophobic, Diaz specifically denied this on the June 26, 2009, edition of Real Time with Bill Maher, saying that a small comment she made 12 years earlier regarding public bathroom doorknobs was distorted out of proportion.

" ( Helmreich, 1997 ) Writing in an article in the Jewish Observer, Moshe Y ' chiail Friedman states that Orthodox Judaism prohibits women from being given semicha and serving as rabbis.

* Maria Petringa's 1997 biographical article on Savorgnan de Brazza, describing events leading to the founding of Brazzaville

* Archaeology abstract of 1997 article

* Bandura, A .: Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control ( see article ), San Francisco: W. H. Freeman ( 1997 )

A 1997 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law article by three law students explained the legal rationale for the " three-state strategy ":

* 1997 article from science news explaining Dr. Sweeting's work.

( 1997 ) Anna Akhmatova: The Stalin Years Journal article by Roberta Reeder ; New England Review, Vol.

Forbes wrote an article in late 1997 calling the Lightning a financial nightmare, with a debt equal to a staggering 236 % of its value — the highest of any major North American sports franchise.

In 1997 Graziadei, W. D., et al., published an article entitled " Building Asynchronous and Synchronous Teaching-Learning Environments: Exploring a Course / Classroom Management System Solution ".

Michael Harner, in his 1997 article The Enigma of Aztec Sacrifice, estimates the number of persons sacrificed in central Mexico in the 15th century as high as 250, 000 per year.

According to a 1997 Billboard article, " he union of the club community and independent labels " provided the experimental and trend-setting environment in which electronica acts developed and eventually reached the mainstream.

As Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman states in a 1997 article for Slate, “ as manufacturing grows in poor countries, it creates a ripple effect that benefits ordinary people: ‘ The pressure on the land becomes less intense, so rural wages rise ; the pool of unemployed urban dwellers always anxious for work shrinks, so factories start to compete with each other for workers, and urban wages also begin to rise .’ In time average wages creep up to a level comparable to minimum-wage jobs in the United States .”

* Irish Examiner article by Jim Duffy in 1997 on President McAleese's selection of members of the Council of State

According to a 1997 Sports Illustrated article, the agents, John Lounsbury and Wesley Spears of Connecticut, had hoped that Camby would hire them to represent him when he became a professional.

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* Grammy Awards Main article: Grammy Awards of 1997

* MTV Video Music Awards Main article: 1997 MTV Video Music Awards

* Triple J Hottest 100: Main article: Triple J Hottest 100, 1997

Paired exchange programs were popularized in the New England Journal of Medicine article " Ethics of a paired-kidney-exchange program " in 1997 by L. F. Ross.

William H. Tucker argued in a 1997 article that: " A comparison of his twin sample with that from other well documented studies, however, leaves little doubt that he committed fraud.

The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

Since 1997, the Minsk Group Co-Chairs have presented three proposals to serve as a framework for resolving the conflict.

; Attacks on UN Staff workers: Section 1 ( 2 )( a ) of the United Nations Personnel Act 1997 ( c. 13 ) makes provision for assault causing injury, and section 1 ( 2 )( b ) makes provision for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, on UN staff.

Like his mother, neither he nor Christine sought a divorce for the next thirty years and it was only in 1997 that they formally divorced ; Ayckbourn married Heather Stoney.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

The total population estimate for 1997 is around 60 adults in Sweden, 11 adults in Finland and 50 in Norway.

In 2001, it achieved high rankings in the annual Maclean's University Rankings, including Best Overall for Primarily Undergraduate University in their opinion survey, and it received the Canadian Information Productivity Award in 1997 as it was praised as the first university in Canada to fully utilize information technology in the undergraduate curriculum.

Hill accepted a position as a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at University of California, Berkeley in January 1997, but soon joined the faculty of Brandeis University — first at the Women's Studies Program, later moving to the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010.

She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).

* Tristan Taormino The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, Cleis Press, 1997, 2006.

After she covered the 10cc song " The Things We Do For Love " for the Mr. Wrong soundtrack, Behind the Eyes was released in September 1997.

ARIN opened its doors for business on December 22, 1997 after incorporating on April 18, 1997.

After finishing her first book, in 1997, Hesser was hired as a food reporter for The New York Times.

In 1997, a memorandum of understanding between the US and four of the former USSR states was signed and subject to ratification by each signatory, but it was not presented to the US Senate for advice and consent by Bill Clinton.

Since 1997, Autumn has been one of the top 100 names for girls in the United States.

Naval Air Station Alameda ( NAS ), at Alameda Point, was decommissioned in 1997, and is in process of being turned over to the City of Alameda for civilian development.