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...infected 80% of all federal agencies, including both the Defense and State departments, leaving them temporarily out of e-mail contact with their far-flung outposts. Though Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon insisted there were other lines of secure communications available, the virus corrupted no fewer than four classified, internal Defense Department e-mail systems...
...recently caused it--the noise, the mess, the stink, the sports programs. Millions of intelligent, literate parents condemned to long afternoons watching children scuffle around on soccer fields, a deadly punishment that should be reserved for convicted felons. And as a parent, you are forced to come in contact with educators...
Zemeckis and the other producers acknowledge that Cast Away, slated for a Christmastime release, will live or die on how well Hanks sells the harrowing solo act. From Back to the Future to Contact, Zemeckis is known for movies that rely heavily on special effects and complicated logistics. Here his special effect is the incredible shrinking Tom Hanks. Since he started slimming down, everyone wants to talk about the weight loss, which bores Hanks no end. "All it is is time and discipline," he says. "It's like, 'How do you get to work every day?' 'Well, first I take...
...room each year for sports-related injuries, with football, not surprisingly, causing the largest share of the damage. Most parents, according to a recent opinion survey by the National Safe Kids' Campaign, assume that broken bones and cuts and bruises are an unavoidable part of the cost of playing contact sports. But the campaign's experts say about half of children's sports injuries can be prevented with the right protective equipment, conditioning and trained adult supervision...
CATTLE CALL Scientists have been speculating for years that plying the nation's livestock with antibiotics may be creating superresistant bacteria in humans. Here's new evidence: after contact with cattle on his family's farm, a 12-year-old Nebraska boy became infected with the same antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonella that had sickened the cows. Using a "molecular fingerprint," researchers confirmed that the cow bug and human bug were indeed one and the same...