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...here's my analysis: Buy what you can afford. The Handspring Visor, at $149, is kind of like the VW Bug of yesteryear. It's cheap, has a certain elegance and runs on the same gas as the Palm line. But if you want a luxury ride with tons of options, go with a Palm. Either way, you can still beam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PCs? Forget 'Em! | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...creating superresistant bacteria in humans. Here's new evidence: after contact with cattle on his family's farm, a 12-year-old Nebraska boy became infected with the same antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonella that had sickened the cows. Using a "molecular fingerprint," researchers confirmed that the cow bug and human bug were indeed one and the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: May 8, 2000 | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

State's record is not encouraging. Last year, in another case, FBI agents found a Russian bug in a room that TIME has learned was used by CIA officials to discuss intelligence. And State's inspector general's report, produced last September, singled out the Intelligence and Research Bureau for loose handling of SCI material, recommending its control over it be taken away. As for the laptop, the search continues, but hopes are not high. Says a U.S. security official: "Nobody has any f______ idea where that laptop is, and they may never find it." Ever more desperate feds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intelligence: The State Dept. Lands In the Laptop of Danger | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...money." Last January, reflecting on the difficulties of campaigning in enemy territory, he said that "all the farmers in the field ran away as if someone with AIDS was knocking on their door." In February, he asserted that the Americans had all "bought guns" in preparation for the Y2K bug "because when electrical power fails in the U.S., the gangs and murderers come out. Such is American society." Last month he charged that teachers in Okinawa were communist-controlled subversives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: When Mori May Be Less | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

Four months later, on Christmas Eve, the detectives repeated their stakeout, this time hiding a bug in a fake tombstone fashioned by a movie special-effects company. But the ruse failed when reporters and cameramen overran the site, and a youngster discovered the bogus marker, rocking it back and forth and loudly announcing, "This is made of wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bugging a Gravestone | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

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