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...sounds like something out of "High Fidelity": What are the 10 best songs of all time? But a panel of 20 songwriting legends, including Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, Jerry Leiber and Hal David, were brave enough to answer that hopelessly subjective question for the British music magazine Mojo, and the results range from predictable to surprising to vaguely unsatisfying...
That's a very reasonable concern. But if people who think like Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, have their way, we'll be able to sleep a little easier in our brave new world. Caplan advocates establishing some kind of confidentiality law that would prohibit unauthorized testing and the free exchange of genetic information - a safeguard that would ostensibly provide each of us with a modicum of privacy...
...turns out that the brave new world of free-flowing information can be a bit disconcerting, even to infoanarchists. Clarke stops at a file named "Ian Clarke's Credit Card Numbers." He isn't worried, he says confidently. He's sure it's a joke, that it doesn't really contain his card numbers. Well, almost sure. He opens the file and checks. "I was right," he says with a trace of relief in his voice. "It was just a joke...
...cried when I read Tom Brokaw's book The Greatest Generation. I cried again when I read your compilation of last letters from soldiers [NATION, May 29]. I would not be here today were it not for the courageous and brave American G.I.s who liberated me from a prison in Manila on Feb. 4, 1945. I was a teenager and had been interned by the Japanese for three years. We owe eternal thanks to those cheerful, high-spirited and wonderful G.I.s who answered the call to arms. God bless them all! BETSY HEROLD HEIMKE Overland Park, Kans...
...encryption forces are the nerds; with a nod to the cyberpunk school of science-fiction writers, they call themselves "cypherpunks." Though their numbers have always been small, cypherpunks are brave, bold and highly motivated. And they have some programming talent...