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Hacking was popularized in the movie "War Games." It took a young high school student nothing more tan a 300-baud modem and a computer less powerful than some calculators to bring the would to the brink of nuclear war. Prior to this he had changed his grades form borderline passing to honor roll. This was an exploit everyone could relate...
...impeachment of Yeltsin. Both men survived the secret vote. When the Congress convened, Yeltsin was predicting that "there will be no winners. It will be a tie." Breaking that tie may take time, and chaos may continue, but the country seemed ready to pull back from the brink. (See related stories beginning on page...
...sort of dumping ground for the damned of the lower middle class. Among their new neighbors are a neo-Nazi, a drug-addict mom who dies of an overdose and someone who keeps a pack of killer Dobermans in the yard next door. For a family teetering on the brink of dysfunction, this environment seems bound to push them over the edge. Sure enough, Dylan, the younger son, is kidnapped and rendered speechless by the trauma...
...first sign of trouble occured in April 1991, when Harvard was on the brink of winning a ninth consecutive Ivy championship...
Babbitt's most ambitious long-term goal is a broad reinterpretation of the Endangered Species Act. "I think it is absolutely the overarching issue," says Babbitt. He proposes to focus less on rescuing individual species already on the brink of extinction, taking instead a multispecies approach in which ecosystems will be examined as a whole. This will require government scientists and researchers to integrate their efforts across agency lines and produce comprehensive biological surveys. As a case in point, Babbitt cites the feuding among federal agencies in the fight over the northern spotted owl of the Pacific Northwest forests...