Word: columbia
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...nine-digit identification numbers as data points. Then, even more than today, the citizenry instinctively loathed the computer and its injunctions against folding, spindling and mutilating. We were not numbers! We were human beings! These fears came to a head in the late 1960s, recalls Alan Westin, a retired Columbia University professor who publishes a quarterly report Privacy and American Business. "The techniques of intrusion and data surveillance had overcome the weak law and social mores that we had built up in the pre-World War II era," says Westin...
...COLUMBIA, N.H.: Fearing that 67-year-old Carl Drega was planning another Oklahoma or World Trade Center bombing, authorities set fire to his barn late last night. The retired Drega, who went on a murder spree before being shot by police Tuesday, had bought 600 pounds of ammonium nitrate and 60 gallons of diesel fuel prior to his rampage ? the same ingredients used in America's worst terrorist attacks. He then stored them in his barn, which police feared he had booby-trapped. If Carl Drega was thinking of adding to his body-count from beyond the grave, his plans...
Drega had a history of conflict with officials in his nearby hometown of Columbia, where Bunnell had been a selectwoman. The town had taken him to court two decades ago for a zoning violation. Six years ago he walked into the town hall, started rummaging through files and had to be removed in handcuffs under Bunnell's orders. Bunnell described Drega as a "time bomb," according to one News and Sentinel reporter...
...surface have been rising so rapidly that they seem likely to equal those of the notorious El Nino of 1982-83, which left 2,000 people dead and $13 billion in economic losses. "That was the biggest El Nino we know of," says climate modeler Stephen Zebiak of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, "until maybe...
...talk and variety show in 1998. But can the world's two most famous living Mormons shed their baggage of terminal cuteness? The suits in TV land seem to think so. "They're in their mid-30s. They're parents. They've lived a life just like anybody," says Columbia TriStar Television Distribution president Barry Thurston, who looked at 15 or more celebrities' talk-show ideas before choosing the toothy twosome. "A lot of celebrities want to sing with Donny and Marie...