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...virus is enough to spread panic. When scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab were warned by a Government security center last May that a virus lurking in the lab's 450 computers was set to be activated that day, many users stopped work and began feverishly making backup copies of all their disks. The warning of a virus proved to be a hoax, but in such an atmosphere, says Chuck Cole, Livermore's deputy computer- security manager, "a hoax can be as disruptive as the real thing...
...sophomore, he made the varsity as the backup fullback. He started twice, gaining 150 yards during the 3-7 season...
...likes to brag that he was the only white guy in Percy Sledge's backup band, but this nonpreppie protege of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond devised the strategy that knocked out Bush's opposition by Super Tuesday. Atwater, 37, is the type of tactical genius who can live without a friend but not without an enemy, and he is often blamed as the source when negative information about the opposition comes out. In a 1980 congressional campaign, Atwater planted the story that the Democratic candidate had been treated for depression. His candidate...
...backup strategy requires sneaking near the rail yard to board in darkness. Railroad police are everywhere with spotlights. No sleep again. Just after midnight they find a grain car with a narrow porch. Twenty minutes later, the freight pauses to add an engine, and aliens from the Mexican border clamber aboard frantically. Finally, the clickety-clack commences for the last time. A hobbyist road-named the "Gentle Giant" defines this moment. "You face nature, and the train is your friend," he says. "All your senses are alive. You'll love your wife, your children and your home better." Three weary...
With 70 albums and 40 years in the business behind her, Cruz, seventyish, handsome, dark-skinned and wearing a snug, sequined fuchsia gown, gyrates for 90 minutes to the insistent beat of her razor-sharp backup band. At the refrain of her old favorite Canto a la Habana (Song to Havana) -- "Cuba que lindos son tus paisajes" (Cuba, what beautiful vistas you have) -- the bilingual crowd goes wild, even though most of those present have never seen Cuba and have little prospect of ever doing so. "We've never had to attract these kids. They come by themselves," says Cruz...