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...electronic sting with international repercussions: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police joined with the FBI to catch the criminals. By tracing phone calls, they soon got their man. Or rather boys. The culprits, only 13 years old, were four clever students at New York's Dalton School, a posh private institution on Manhattan's Upper East Side...
...schoolboy lark. None of the Dalton gang, even its eighth-grade leader, was prosecuted. But computer specialists were not amused. Besides costing the firms thousands of dollars in computer time, the incident was one more irritating example of the vulnerability of systems an that can have price tags in the millions and store information of incalculable value. It was also a sign of the growing incidence of computer crime...
...work is still published by conglomerate-owned houses, notably Knopf, a subsidiary of Random House, which in turn is owned by Newhouse Publications; badly written, poorly edited work still pours forth from privately owned houses -Doubleday, for example. A more justified complaint is that the huge bookstore chains, B. Dalton and Waldenbooks, give limited shelf space to titles with less than mass appeal...
...Dalton is 33, which is practically Geritol territory by music-biz standards. But her years have allowed her to absorb some of the hard knocks and low blows that give a good old country tune perspective. She grew up in the hills of east-central Pennsylvania, on the fringes of the mining belt. Her father was a guide on a hunting preserve ("He was a good shot. I grew up eating venison"). Her mother, trained as a beautician, worked counters at local truck stops. During long evenings at home, her father played guitar, mandolin and banjo, and her mother sang...
...Sometimes a song comes to me in a dream," she says. "I hear chords I don't know, then a voice says I don't practice enough because if I did I'd recognize them." However lofty Dalton's trajectory, it. will likely remain solidly grounded in some old lessons. "I don't care if some one sings better or writes better songs," she says. "I don't have absolute standards for my music. It's all something personal, and not competitive. The first time I learned that was seeing that painting...