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...make up a new problem about which to be concerned, complaining about everything from snakes to ants to poisonous spiders. And each time they also attempt to come up with a way of getting back at their neighbors. Beep and Kitty attack the neighbors' toy poodles in the street, bug their apartment and even spy on them from afar...

Author: By Mary-beth A. Muchmore, | Title: Problems with the Neighbors, Neighbors with Problems | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

...more liberal congregations, heaven is found mostly in hymns, preserved like a bug in amber. There are still some churches where one can find a robust heavenly vision in the late 1990s--among Southern Baptists, and African-American denominations as a whole. But most late-20th century American Christians, observes Jeffrey Burton Russell, have a better grasp of heaven's cliches than of its allures. "It's this place where you've got wings, you stand on a cloud, and if the concept is more sophisticated, where you see God and you sing hymns. It's a boring place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOES HEAVEN EXIST? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...first bug was discovered by students at Worcester Polytechnic right here in Massachusetts. It allows a web page designer to include regular shortcuts (files that end in '.LNK') and Internet shortcuts (files that end in '.URL') on a page that could start programs on a user's computer if clicked. Because of the common location of many of the files on Windows-based PCs, it would not be difficult to create a link, for example, that would start the calculator program on your computer. While this is an innocent example, it could be very destructive if another program was started...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: techTALK | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

...second bug was announced shortly after the first and was discovered by MIT students. It is basically the same as the first bug except that it extends the possible files to include those that...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: techTALK | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

...bug in question isn't nervous, though--at least not yet. "I'll have to play well and have a couple of surprises, but I feel that my chances are still superior," Kasparov says over lunch in Manhattan the next day to an audience of six, including Tan. "I know quite a lot, and I'll control my temper and my psychology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEEPER IN THOUGHT | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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