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...power grab. Bill Gates, the richest man in America and chairman of the world's largest PC software company, announces that his next business target is the Internet, the world's biggest-and most chaotic-computer network. The move instantly becomes topic No. 1 in boardrooms and on electronic bulletin boards around the world. The assumption is that Gates, whose software runs 9 out of 10 personal computers, will do to the Internet what he did to the PC industry: seize control of key chokepoints and leverage his advantage to extend Microsoft's domination...
Others are recognized through the mass of publicity which the development office puts out to try to focus on the volunteers more. Getz, for example, received the second most pledges of any College Fund fund-raiser and was given credit for his achievement in the fundraising bulletin sent out by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...entered one of AOL's racy "chat rooms" pretending to be a 14-year-old girl named "Susie." The incidents were the latest in a series of porn-related problems for online services and the Internet: last month, a California couple was jailed for allowing "obscene" photos on their bulletin board service. Pam McGraw, an AOL spokeswoman, told TIME Daily the service advises parents to use the "parental control" feature to keep children from entering certain "chat areas" and from receiving one-on-one "instant" messages...
...Mosser's murder left some people wondering if they might be next. Many advertising agencies beefed up their security procedures, and sales of such devices as X-ray metal detectors skyrocketed. Some computer users on the Internet discussed the case in private E-mail messages but avoided the public bulletin boards, loath to call attention to themselves. But John T. Horn, head of corporate security at Kroll Associates, a New York-based security company, is careful to keep the matter in perspective. "It's highly unlikely that you'll get one in the mail," says Horn, who himself fielded dozens...
...information highway." Patriot talk shows, such as The Informed Citizen, a half-hour program broadcast on public-access TV in Northern California, spread the word that American values are under attack from within and without. Militias also communicate via the Patriot Network, a system of linked computer bulletin boards, and through postings in news groups on the Internet. One recent posting by a group calling itself the Pennsylvania Militia, more specifically the F Company of the 9th Regiment, asked for "a few good men" to join up and "stand up to the forces of federal and world tyranny...