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A nation of strangers?

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 40, Issue 12
          Dec. 1997
          105 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/265563
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