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Hackers at C.M.U. like to test their tenacity by exploring ways of scaling the electronic barriers that protect computer systems or by engaging in protracted computer combat. In their wars, they try to block each other's access to programs or destroy those of their rivals. Recently a hacker created a program known informally as Lose Big; it looks like a game but actually is a trap that destroys the files of whoever runs the program. "Nerds," which is what hackers call computer dilettantes, are the chief victims of Lose Big. "You see a guy at the terminal," says...
...noncorrupt and capable of actually working harder than its own citizenry. The achievements have often been on a human scale as miniaturized as the island itself: 45 miles of sorely needed new roads, a tripling of fruit and vegetable exports in the past three years, canning, asphalt and concrete-block plants, a 12% drop in dependence on food imports and a 50% increase in fresh-water production since the 1979 coup. The government even managed a $2.5 million surplus in 1982, half of which went to repay the country's past debts. Social tranquillity has appeared: the major crime...
Meeting last week with the Cambridge Community Development Department and neighborhood activists, the Niles Company, which leases and manages the block between Plympton and Linden Streets, agreed to "modify the [planned] facade to make it more closely blend with surrounding architectural features," said Shepard Brown, senior vice president of the company...
...demolition of the block's existing buildings and reconstruction of the complex is scheduled to begin next March and continue for 18 months...
Meanwhile, owners of the stores on Mass. Ave. are trying to decide how best to deal with the upcoming development. All the shops on the block will have to close during construction, and some owners say they will not be able to afford to return to the new complex at three times their present rent...