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Problems with the hastily installed machines began to crop up immediately. Two of the computers had to be sent back to Sperry when technicians at the IRS offices in Memphis and Atlanta could not get them started. At other centers tape drives storing tax-return information persistently malfunctioned. In addition, a program developed to allow computers that suddenly crashed to resume processing where they left off mysteriously failed as well. Each time the system went down, operators had to start the work from scratch. Says Thomas Laycock, the IRS assistant commissioner of computers: "There were things that...
Summertime is watermelon time, but last week California farmers watched helplessly as more than 1 million melons were crushed, bashed and otherwise dumped. Parts of the crop had been contaminated by pesticide, and nearly 300 people in California, Oregon, Alaska, Washington and Idaho fell ill after eating the tainted fruit. The estimated loss to the melon industry: $6 million...
...huge crop of talented freshmen was out there, courtesy of Harvard coach Joe Walsh, flashing power and poise, and making team veterans murmur as early as October that this was the year. Walsh was equally giddy, and as team practices turned to team scrimmages, the chemistry building up was apparent. Especially to Farkes, who went to every practice in a sling and watched...
...College will only have time to implement minor changes, if any, to the Calendar of Opening Days for the incoming crop of freshmen. If the committee recommends a major overhaul, the Class of 2010 will likely be the first to see the results...
...those interested in pornography, there's plenty of it on the Internet. It comes in all forms: hot chat, erotic stories, explicit pictures, even XXX- rated film clips. Every night brings a fresh crop, and the newsgroups that carry it (alt.sex, alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, etc.) are among the top four or five most popular. The salacious stuff is clearly an embarrassment to the Clinton Administration, which has been trying to make a virtue of getting the Internet into schools. The White House is concerned, admits Tom Kalil, an adviser to Vice President Al Gore. But to judge the Net by its smut...