This was an idea I got yesterday in my game when I was revolting into anarchy, and had 9 turns 
anarchy.
One of my cities was rioting and I turned all the 12 citizens into scientists, which brought 36 gold into science. I checked the F1 screen and noticed that I would research the technology in less then 25 turns.
I also noticed that the city did not starve if it was in riot. So I made several cities go into riot, and the next turn I put all the citizens to be Scientists.
Like this:
And take a look at this:
Here I am, in the longest anarchy of all my Civ3 games (with 7 turns left of the 9 turn anarchy), and I'm researching a tech in 5 turns
anarchy.One of my cities was rioting and I turned all the 12 citizens into scientists, which brought 36 gold into science. I checked the F1 screen and noticed that I would research the technology in less then 25 turns.
I also noticed that the city did not starve if it was in riot. So I made several cities go into riot, and the next turn I put all the citizens to be Scientists.
Like this:
And take a look at this:
Here I am, in the longest anarchy of all my Civ3 games (with 7 turns left of the 9 turn anarchy), and I'm researching a tech in 5 turns
). For bigger empires, you would at least expect 3 turns of anarchy (if this vanilla/PTW rule still applies here). Although, 9(!) anarchy turns, as you observed, sounds as some things have actually changed here, maybe min turns is now even higher.
or some taxmen if I need positive gpt for better trade negotiations abilities), I wonder if this special starving prevention existed before in vanilla/PTW, and/or if it still counts for a normal form of gov. I mean I could finally let my far-flung cities grow to 30, then let them riot... guess about the rest! 
