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...historians because they embody so perfectly the courage and blind arrogance of 19th century Britain, but Subzero and Reepah are simply dreary. And Subzero, picking moodily at the scab of his 20th century conscience, fretting that the Inuit find him contemptible, giving tips on Arctic trekking (down sleeping bags collect moisture and freeze; masturbation at very low temperatures isn't worth the trouble) is just not as interesting to Vollmann's readers as to the author himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Self-Love in a Cold Climate | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

More important, however, is the fact that the motivation to increase student term bill fees at Harvard should not be based on the amount of money the student governments collect at Boston College, Boston University, Tufts or MIT. "Need" should be defined in real rather than relative terms. What maters isn't how much money the council has, but what it's doing with what...

Author: By David V. Bonfili, | Title: Is the U.C. Fee Hike Worth the Price? A Perspective From the Inside | 3/25/1994 | See Source »

Menendez attorney won't collect any taxpayer-funded fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Mar. 21, 1994 | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...Diffie public-key encryption system could solve one of the big problems facing companies that want to do business on the emerging information highway: how to collect the cash. On a computer or telephone network, it's not easy to verify that the person whose name is on a credit card is the one who is using it to buy a new stereo system -- which is one of the reasons catalog sales are * rife with fraud. But if an order confirmation encoded with someone's public key can be decoded by his or her private key -- and only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Keep the Keys? | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Flynn has also complained about not being able to support himself on $115,000 a year. According to The Boston Globe, he has looked for sinecures with several Boston-area universities, so he can collect a salary while he runs for governor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Go Back to Rome, Ray | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

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