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...businessman whose hundred or so acres lie within the monument's outer boundaries. "The only people who want to shrink the boundaries are timber companies and cattle owners," he says. "If you don't believe they ruin the land, imagine what your street would look like after a cow or a logger with a chainsaw spent some time there. I don't understand why they insist on ruining this tiny speck on the map when they have millions of acres nearby they're allowed to destroy...
...most recent cause, in May, was railing against McDonald's for using cow fat in French fries. Shiva, 49, calls herself an eco-feminist. At one moment she scolds multinational corporations in street protests, and the next she advises their CEOs on how to be good global citizens. Born in a Himalayan village and trained as a physicist, Shiva has taken up issues like logging and pesticide use through her New Delhi-based Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology...
...Love You" virus retrieved passwords from victims' computers to send back to its creator. Other viruses are programmed to strip e-mail addresses from your address book. Back Orifice, a notorious piece of software created a few years ago by a hacking group called Cult of the Dead Cow, takes over a host computer completely. Among its privacy-invading features: it can dig up passwords and monitor every keystroke typed into...
...night, going through the budget line by line. Then the caucus found an $8.4 million agriculture item no one could explain. "Cut it! Cut it!" The item was slashed. But the next day someone pointed out that the money was earmarked to help prevent the spread of mad-cow and foot-and-mouth diseases. The caucus quickly restored--even increased--the funding...
...have to look far to find folks who are freaked out by genetically modified foods, who won't drink cow's milk laced with growth hormones or touch diet colas sweetened with aspartame. Since we have so many hang-ups about the purity of what we eat and drink, you'd think that any company foolish enough to add substances whose quantity and quality are notoriously difficult to control to their snacks or beverages would quickly founder. Instead the exact opposite is true. In the U.S. last year, according to the market-research firm Frost and Sullivan, consumers bought...