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...network that causes machines equipped with voice synthesizers to intone the words "Don't panic." Others are more of a nuisance, causing temporary malfunctions or making it difficult to run isolated programs. But some seem bent on destroying valuable data. "Your worst fear has come true," wrote a computer buff in a report he posted on an electronic bulletin board to warn other users about a new Macintosh virus. "Don't share disks. Don't copy software. Don't let anyone touch your machine. Just...
...have its own library, recording studio and recital hall. "Information about this art form has been scattered; we would like to bring it all together," says Thelonious Monk Jr., the pianist's son, who has helped raise $12 million for the facilities. Duke President H. Keith Brodie, a jazz buff, was delighted to beat out Washington and Los Angeles for the site of the conservatory. Says he: "The first record I ever bought was a Thelonious Monk album...
...Gore as a child spent his winters in an eighth-floor apartment in the old Fairfax Hotel on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. In the summers he would let his energy explode on his dad's farm in Carthage, where there were a collie named Buff and fish in the pond. Young Al hid behind the apartment doors in 1960 to listen to his father and friends help plot the campaign strategy for Kennedy. Neither Harvard nor those 500 farm acres in Tennessee could turn his head. Politics enticed him back to the Capitol...
...Disney parks of Florida and California offer squeaky-clean visions of a perfect society, the Disneyland that flourishes in Tokyo is even cleaner and more utopian. Yet even as the Japanese version reproduces virtually every feature of its American models, it turns them into something entirely Japanese. Melvin, Buff and Max, the antlered commentators at the Country Bear Jamboree, speak in the grave basso profundos of Kurosawa samurai. Alice in Wonderland has Oriental features. Frontierland has been turned into Westernland ("The Japanese don't like frontiers," explains a park official), and Main Street has become the World Bazaar...
When a series of nude billboards began appearing last week, Parisians reacted with confusion rather than shock. Was the naked runner with a rose in his hand advertising a floral delivery service? Were the children, all in the buff, promoting a softer bathroom tissue? And the pregnant woman pressing a rose to her bare breast -- a new perfume...