Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Patton getting ready to cross the Rhine with the Third Army," he announced, discarding his French fries and all but a scrap of bread. It's no surprise that Zone disciples tend to congregate on the coasts. Sears says Middle America will latch on within five years, but others aren't convinced. If Sears can talk Americans who live in the grain belt to forgo bread and cereal, he'll be in the Zone for sure...
Away from the microphones, one of the summit's more prominent voices gave it a slightly more cynical spin: Now Congressman So-and-So can go to the Christian Coalition and talk technology, technology, technology. Not that there aren't still a few bugs. Many of the software programs block out innocuous Websites as well as toxic ones; others are cumbersome or do unpleasant things to your computer's operating system. Many in the online industry are touting a new "platform for Internet content selection" (PICS) system that is a kind of V chip for the Internet. But as participants...
McAllister is on the mark in asserting that "the biggest obstacles to killing Saddam aren't moral or legal but practical." Americans who are squeamish about political assassinations may be surprised to learn that one advocate of tyrannicide was Abraham Lincoln, himself the victim of an assassin's bullet. Lincoln believed that when a people have suffered under a tyrant for a long time, all legal and peaceful means to oust him have been exhausted and prospects for his early departure are grim, then the people have a right to remove him by drastic means. McAllister is correct: this...
...site last month jokingly said they may have to go to the local temple to pray for snow, which averages 2 in. in February in Nagano proper. Don't worry: the mountains, where a dramatic men's downhill route was designated last week, get more than 50 in. And aren't the four "Snowlet" mascots cute...
...Kids aren't the only ones the government wants to protect from cyberporn. The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated refunds of $2.75 million for thousands of U.S. customers who unwittingly racked up charges in a Net sex scam in which supposedly free Websites rerouted modem connections through the former Soviet Republic of Moldova, taking lascivious surfers on a very costly ride...