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...Titans list is like Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls losing out to the Harlem Globetrotters. The Bulls are the best in the world at what they do, as was Hughes, and the Globetrotters are the best at playing crazy, as was Hughes. CURTIS J. PHILLIPS Fort McMurray, Alta...
...killing of thousands of innocent citizens every year by drivers under the influence of alcohol. The bombing of a few strategically located "factories" where the production of alcohol is alleged to take place would send the message that such behavior will no longer be tolerated. HARRY K. ELDON Lethbridge, Alta...
...America, the U.S., the self-proclaimed promoter of democracy, is almost always on the side of the business elite, military juntas or tin-pot dictators--not on the side of the poor and downtrodden. Terror is the weapon the weak are wielding against the superpower. RANI-VILLEM PALO Camrose, Alta...
Talk about expensive addresses: According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Compaq Computer Corp., owners of the Alta Vista search engine, paid a San Jose, Calif., business owner $3.35 million for the rights to the domain name www.altavista.com...
Speculating in domain names is not new: Enterprising individuals bought hundreds of Internet addresses such as unitedairlines.com and held them for ransom from their namesakes. (In 1996 a court ruled against registering copyrighted names.) But Marshall had his fair and square -- the Alta Vista search engine wasn't launched until November 1995, and was first registered under the name www.altavista.digital.com. (Why they picked a name that was already taken is inexplicable.) However, having a search engine's traffic mistakenly piling into your site daily isn't necessarily desirable, especially next to $3.5 million, and Marshall finally settled...