Word: clones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MIKE WALLACE & CO. 60 Minutes graybeards stifle bid to clone the show. Self-imitation isn't flattering--or shrewd...
...occupied for four days, Habibie was a perpetuation of the problem that brought Indonesia to its knees--the authoritarian system of crony capitalism known by its Indonesian acronym of KKN, for corruption, collusion and nepotism. Had all the riots and deaths--more than 500--given Indonesians nothing but a clone of the kleptocrat they had so painfully deposed...
...racking sobs rise in a plangent chorus outside the nation's multiplexes, as young girls cry, "How can we survive a summer without Leo?" In the past the season has survived pretty well without Leonardo DiCaprio. But in the wake of Titanic, studios wish they could clone the blond bambino as easily and guiltlessly as they steal story ideas. What works at the movies? What else? What worked before...
Hollywood is busy right now, as the networks scramble to put together their fall schedules and wrestle with such weighty problems as which show will get Seinfeld's time slot and how quickly they can clone Ally McBeal. This spring, however, the most intriguing moves are being contemplated at the network news divisions. The result could be a big step on the road to a long dreamed of, but never realized, goal: a network newscast in the lucrative, heavily viewed hours of prime time...
...What this means is that cell phone rustlers can now scan the airwaves, remotely tap into a call and even duplicate the cell phone's digital ID at will. As Marc Briceno, who organized the code-cracking, puts it: "We can clone the phones." What was the crypto technology's fatal weakness? Too much secrecy...