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...then settled onto a well-worn bench. Whenever Gusev, 54, a technical specialist for the Russian intelligence service, fiddled with something in his pocket, the G's state-of-the-art radio-signal detector would come to life, indicating that a faint low-frequency transmission was emanating from a bug somewhere in the gray State offices...
Officials left the chair-rail bug in place for a few weeks to make sure they could prove it was under Russian intelligence control. Once the evidence was in hand, two FBI agents confronted Gusev on the sidewalk at 11:34 a.m. last Wednesday. He claimed diplomatic immunity and was declared persona non grata and given 10 days to leave the country...
With the success of their first venture, Pixar and Disney's friendship formalized in 1997 with a five-picture deal. The first picture, A Bug's Life, was released in 1998. Again, the friendship achieved critical and financial success. A Bug's Life broke the 1996 record for biggest Thanksgiving opening and critics dubbed it the winner of the bug movie war with rival movie Antz. And in 1999, Pixar and Disney released Toy Story 2. And again, Toy Story 2 is achieving critical and financial success. It didn't merely break the previous Thanksgiving record, it blew it away...
Their idea, Gonsalves and Trembaly say, was to create an unprecedented challenge to fears about the millennium computer bug...
...epidemic first appeared on Army bases. Strapping recruits began the day in the pink and ended it drowning in their own secretions. The bug jumped quickly to the civilian population. Abroad, similar outbreaks spread until entire continents were stained by infection. The scourge remains, hands down, the biggest single disaster in human history. Strangely, it is also a chapter that has been largely forgotten. Kolata suggests that the lapse is due to the magnitude of the horror--in short, mass denial. Another diagnosis could be that the epidemic was conflated with the carnage of World War I, memories of which...