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...security. Seventy-four U.S. Senators cosponsored a resolution to block the weapons sale. Nonetheless, the White House blithely announced early last week that it would go ahead with the deal unless both houses of Congress voted it down within 30 days. With just such a prospect beginning to appear likely, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar of Indiana engineered the March 1 delay as a compromise. Most legislators, however, saw the move as a humiliating Administration defeat...
...only crying," reported Communications Minister Adolfo Rey Prendes, whose face was also streaked with tears. As he led the former captives away, Duarte showed the strain of both a worried father and a politician who knew that striking a deal with the F.M.L.N. could very well make him appear weak...
...shoreline erosion and flooding. At the University of Minnesota, Gary edited the literary magazine and wrote a noisy, satirical column called "Broadsides," in which he slashed at student radicals, the college president and any other targets that seemed pompous or pretentious. But the storytelling gifts did not immediately appear. In 1966, after he finished college, Keillor "felt a slight urge to head out" from the Midwest, and on a job-hunting swing through the East he applied at half a dozen publications. No takers...
...destructive hackers have some wit, albeit menacing. In a program called the Cookie Monster, the screen suddenly goes blank. Seconds later, the words "I want a cookie" appear. If the user types "cookie," the machine returns to normal. A few years ago, Richard Skrenta Jr., an 18-year-old Northwestern University student, wrote a virus program called Cloner. Every 30th time a disk containing the program is used, the virus harmlessly flashes a few verses across the screen; then the interrupted task resumes where it left off. "I wrote it as a joke to see how far it would spread...
Announcement of the 100 winners will take place next April. The 20 candidates deemed most outstanding will receive cash awards of $ 1,000 to $5,000; the other 80 will be given certificates of merit. All the winners' names will appear next spring in a special insert in TIME; the top 20 will be profiled. Judging will be conducted by TIME and panels of distinguished educators and community leaders. To launch the awards, TIME last month published a special section in its campus editions called "Portraits in Excellence," in which 14 illustrious former college students, including Astronomer Carl Sagan, Journalist...