Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, visiting the neighborhood Blockbuster to rent a movie was a bit like watching Geraldo Rivera open Al Capone's vault. Great expectations gave way to dejection as you learned that any valuables inside were long gone...
...mail programs such as Microsoft's Outlook Express and Outlook 98 or Netscape Mail, you might want to be a bit more careful about opening your spam today. Both companies have acknowledged the existence of a serious security flaw in their programs that, according to tests, could allow hackers to mail viruses that will crash your computer or erase your hard drive. And if you think dumping messages straight in the trash keeps you safe, think again: The tests, conducted over the past month by Finnish researchers, showed that some viruses were activated by the very act of deleting -- even...
...strikeouts in a game--and did it at age 20. The most famous mark in sports, Roger Maris' single-season home-run record of 61 in 1961 (Can you see why we weep?), is being attacked on three fronts: McGwire, who had 42 homers as of Saturday (only a bit more than halfway through the season), has been joined by Griffey (39) and some guy named Sammy Sosa...
...discovering with more and more certainty that time is only one barrier to relating to these children. During our unit on immigration, my campers were aghast to discover that I hadn't grown up in Boston. Utah? Small town? They were surprised and more than a little bit critical of roots from outside New England. During a discussion of ancestry, one child staunchly defended his belief that all of his relatives were from Boston, back through the generations...
...Conceding defeat in the clone wars, James admitted that ProBio's microinjection method of cloning was "quite a bit more efficient" than the method used to create Dolly. The famous sheep, after all, was born only after 287 failed attempts at stimulating embryos. By contrast, scientists at Honolulu made cloning mice look like baking cookies...