Word: chain
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...company also makes it easy to send anonymous, untraceable e-mail through a program called Mixmaster. (Whistle blowers against government or corporate abuses, for instance, like this as do people who want to discuss sexual abuse.) It encrypts your mail, chunks it up and sends it out through a chain of "remailers"--computers that forward mail to other computers, making it impossible to intercept and trace back. Note, though, that you can't receive replies. By summer, Cottrell hopes to improve the service with something called a Nym (for pseudonym) Server that allows you to maintain untraceable...
Since leaving Detroit, Iacocca has fooled with an eclectic array of proposals, even serving a brief stint as chairman of Koo Koo Roo Chicken, the health-conscious fast-food chain. He turned down an early invitation to team up with inventor Malcolm Bricklin's electric-bike company. Yet Iacocca has been intrigued by electric propulsion since his early days at Ford, 50 years ago. "Thomas Edison promised Henry Ford he would be able to throw away the internal-combustion engine," he says. "It's 100 years later, and we're just now seeing some progress...
...theme-park shows. The O-Town kids are paid $500 to $1,000 a week until their groups take off and they start making real money. Or not. A reporter jokes that if things don't work out, the boys can always go to work for the Chippendales chain, which Pearlman owns. "Or make pizza," Big Poppa adds. He owns a pizza restaurant too. Meantime, he tries to keep his young charges from the well-known temptations, drugs and whatnot, that come with the music business. "Big Poppa's watching," he says. Like a rich uncle, Big Poppa has been...
DIED. JAY PRITZKER, 76, billionaire philanthropist and founder of the Hyatt hotel chain; in Chicago. In 1979 he established the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which is now considered the most prestigious honor in the field...
...HOME: Michael Graves, postmodern architect, designer of the Portland Building in Oregon and the Crooks House in Indiana, has a new feather in his cap: availability at Target. The discount chain commissioned the architect to create a line of housewares after working with him on the restoration of the Washington Monument, which it's partly funding. He brought forth such potential budget wedding gifts as a toaster, kitchen utensils, a patio set and an ice bucket. Next: Issey Miyake redoes the Big Gulp for 7-Eleven...