Word: chernobyls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, not everyone, and there's the rub. Americans, happy in their getting and spending, are largely oblivious to their massive world influence. But others are not, particularly foreign elites. Some chafe, like the French Minister of Culture who called Disneyland Paris a cultural Chernobyl. Some rant, like the Malaysian Prime Minister who rose at the U.N. in September to denounce "the true ugliness of Western capitalism...backed by the military might of capitalism's greatest proponent...
...wasn't Chernobyl and it wasn't Three Mile Island, but the accident was bad enough. Though authorities eventually gave the all clear, the full extent of the damage is unknown. But what made it most frightening was the amount of time that passed before anybody seemed to know just how bad it was or wasn't. At one point, radiation levels a mile or so from the plant were 15,000 times higher than normal for an urban setting; 46 workers were exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation. U.S. and European experts said backup safety measures should have...
...CHERNOBYL VIRUS HAS BEEN DESTROYING HARD DRIVES FOR 14,460 MINUTES...
Last Sunday, the computer virus Chernobyl disabled the hard drives of computers across the Campus, preventing access to everything from theses to lowly expos papers. Those who lacked sufficient protection in the form of anti-viral programs had to suffer both the loss of countless hours as they attempted to restore their papers and the supercilious comments of their peers. The number of students who do, indeed, back up every assignment they have on a disk is quite small. Harvard students prize efficiency, and so due to the rarity of complete computer failure, not many expend the effort required...
...aftermath of the Chernobyl virus has trashed students' papers and minds for 4,752 minutes...