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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...call to Identification and Data Services will render the missing card unusable and a new card will be issued. According to HUD, the account information will be transferred to the new card in about five minutes...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRIMSON CASH | 1/22/1999 | See Source »

Sporting the message "Wet library books? Call us," the bag provides a hotline number for borrowers with damaged books...

Author: By Sarah C. Haskins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Libraries Distribute Protective Book Bags | 1/22/1999 | See Source »

...support a woman's right to choose as well as to the majority of those who are anti-abortion, nowhere does there seem to be the threat of imminent lawless action. Not only is the Internet inherently weak as a provocative medium, but the Web site does not explicitly call for violence against abortion doctors. Furthermore, the site can be viewed as an informational political vehicle, since it also urges voters to begin letter-writing campaigns against abortion. Much as we might prefer that the site be taken down, it would curtail the First Amendment to force the site...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fighting Within Bounds | 1/20/1999 | See Source »

...this happen? Who is responsible for the bug we call Y2K? Conventional wisdom goes something like this: back in the 1950s, when computers were the size of office cubicles and the most advanced data-storage system came on strips of punched cardboard, several scientists, including a Navy officer named Grace Murray Hopper, begat a standard programming language called COBOL (common business-oriented language). To save precious space on the 80-column punch cards, COBOL programmers used just six digits to render the day's date: two for the day, two for the month, two for the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The History And The Hype | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...need to save your pennies to buy this stuff, of course. One possible solution is Uniden's Long-Distance Call Manager. When you make a long-distance phone call, a Uniden wireless phone ($49.95) automatically connects to a database that instantly searches more than 60 of those "10-10" calling services and finds the best deal at the time. It works with whatever long-distance plan you already subscribe to (using that, if it happens to be cheaper than the 10-10s.) There are no monthly fees, and it should be available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gadgets Galore | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

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