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...problem was traced to a rapidly multiplying program that was consuming computer memory. This program carried something else as well. Within its instructional code was a "time bomb" linked to each computer's internal clock and set to go off on the second Friday in May -- Friday the 13th, the 40th anniversary of the State of Israel. Any machine still infected on that date would suffer the instant loss of all its files. Fortunately, the virus was eradicated well before May 13, and the day passed without incident...
...blame for the previous summer's inner-city race riots on the "white perspective" of the press, the 1968 report concluded, "The painful process of readjustment that is required of the American media must begin now." Last week many of the nation's top news executives attended the 13th annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists in St. Louis to assess the progress of minority journalists in the 20 years since the report. The verdict: decidedly mixed...
...therapy? Not likely: the season's other horror movies have been flops. Then is the answer just Freddy, the perfect freak-out counselor for an evening of summer camp? Not quite. Sure, he's got loads more personality than Jason, the goalie-masked monster of the seven Friday the 13th bloodfests. As Englund describes Freddy, "He has a bantam- cock swagger, an arrogant sexual thrust, like Jimmy Cagney." The ex- janitor can be pathetic too: "I picture him as a wiry, scrawny Lee Oswald with a push broom, peeking into girls' lockers when no one's looking." But the Nightmare...
...13th birthday, in June 1987, the Garakanis offered 40-in. Reza his dream gift -- a chance for deliverance from life imprisonment in a three-year- old's body. But, his father warned, "you have to pay for it with perhaps three years of pain." Reza answered, "It can't be worse than the hell I have already gone through...
...book on 13th century French brothels might not sound like something you'd include on your summer reading list. Everyone's studied European history enough to know that the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages dictated everything from how to kiss to when it was appropriate to have a child, and prostitution hardly seems like the hot topic of those centuries...