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America Onliners, rejoice! With last week's release of Version 5.0--the latest upgrade of AOL's popular operating software--you can do what everyone else on the Net has long been doing: automatically append a "signature file" to outgoing e-mail. Think of sig files as the bumper stickers of e-mail--your chance to personalize your messages. While mine has always been simply name, rank and fax number, the best sig quote I ever saw was the whimsical "I'd like to die in my sleep with a smile on my face like my granddad, rather than screaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL: You've Got 5.0! | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

PARTS IS PARTS? In the wake of last week's verdicts against State Farm, totaling $1.2 billion, the insurance company is temporarily suspending its policy of requiring body shops to repair cars by using generic bumpers, hoods and fenders. The no-names are cheaper but could end up costing more down the road. When Consumer Reports conducted 5-m.p.h. crash tests on a Taurus, the Ford-made bumper suffered minor damage that cost $235 to repair. A generic bumper shattered, causing $1,350 in damages. Until last week, State Farm made consumers pay the difference if they insisted on using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Oct. 18, 1999 | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...relatively ugly, pale-green placard lies amid newspapers, bumper stickers and documents in the offices of Harvard's largest union, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder and M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Does Harvard Have a Responsibility to Make Employees Part of the Community | 10/5/1999 | See Source »

...escape Al Gore in the months ahead. What could have stopped the anti-Baptist? Police took several hours to take a look at his body, fearing that the corpse was booby-trapped, and they do not yet know whether he had a license for his weapon, an NRA bumper sticker on his car, or the membership card of some atheist terror cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Fort Worth, a Church Is Violated by Gunfire | 9/16/1999 | See Source »

...this stuff on TV and it's all so surreal." Kennedy's corner office remained closed and locked. From his office windows, he had a distant view of the Statue of Liberty; on the walls were pictures of his wife and his father and mother, as well as political bumper stickers and a few photos of Kennedy himself when he was younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Was America's Prince... | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

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