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What's truly bizarre is that people actually visit these places -- not just in ones or twos but by the thousands. The hot spot this past holiday season was the Rome Lab Snowball Cam, which advertises itself as a robot arm, ice machine and camera setup that invites Internet visitors to heave snowballs at engineers working at an Air Force base in Rome, New York. Like so many other Pentagon projects, however, the Snowball Cam turned out to be less than it promised. The lab was real. So were the engineers. The snowballs, however, were "virtual" -- which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snowballs in Cyberspace | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

...moment the invasion began on Dec. 11, it violated just about every rule of modern warfare. The slow-motion operation gave the rebels plenty of time to organize and arm. A barrage of air strikes failed to do anything but stiffen resistance. Once the fight was joined, the Chechens made hash of the raw Russian troops, ill-trained and unprepared, who fought poorly and used tactics any military academy cadet would be expected to avoid. Grachev had remarked recently that only an "incompetent commander" would order tanks into the streets of central Grozny, where they would be vulnerable to rocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It All Went So Very Wrong | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

...council briefly discussed the status of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at Harvard, particularly "lengthening the arm between Harvard and the entity that would make payments to MIT," Shepsle said...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Faculty Establishes Benefits Committee | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

...consider these to be important papers," said Ronald C. Desrosiers, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the Medical School. "This research will help to focus researchers into the central question--how can every arm of immune response be up, yet the virus continues to replicate in the face of the immune response...

Author: By Kris J. Thiessen, | Title: Studies Change Common Theories on AIDS | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

Nichols has alleged that the Private Capital Group, an arm of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), and Allen & Co., an investment firm, are using confidential information in their bid. HMC invests money from the University's endowment fund...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Nichols Reports Discussions in Suit Against Harvard | 1/11/1995 | See Source »

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