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...thing Netscape has going for it is its techies, most notably Andreessen, who, as a 22-year-old undergraduate at the University of Illinois, conceived the first graphical Web browser, Mosaic, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the fall of 1992. That bit of software transformed the drab, black-and-white, hard-to-get-around-in world of the Internet into a colorful place and stimulated an explosion in new kinds of content, from Web-based magazines to online casinos. Mosaic, which is licensed by the university to customers, was also given away and gained an estimated...
...Naval Base, Cuban refugees cavort happily on the beach in a scene reminiscent of a Club Med. They have good reason to celebrate: soon they will be flying off to freedom in the U.S. Meanwhile, less than a mile away, more than 200 Haitian children lounge listlessly under drab green tents, seeking refuge from the harsh midday sun. Camp Nine, their home since last June, is a desolate patch of cactus-filled desert where the only sign of life is an occasional banana rat or iguana. A fence encircles the camp, which is guarded by American soldiers. The children, many...
...during the years of communist rule in Prague, has stripped much of the land of its character. West of Decin, where we had crossed the Elbe, there is a new bridge, but the forest and meadow-the green countryside I remembered-have yielded to smokestack and factory, pipeline and drab worker housing. Lignite mining has left massive scars and transformed vast stretches of land into a moonscape. "This looks like the end of the war," Lubos said, pointing to one jagged excavation. Pollution haze darkened the clouds, and the smell of chemicals was in the air-a far cry from...
...permission to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds. The remaining 15,000, mostly young men, were facing indefinite detention-a good recipe for riots. welcome to hell, said a sign scrawled on a tent at Guantanamo last week, while inside six sweaty and bored young men lolled on olive-drab cots. Only days after the announcement, they were no longer jubilant, realizing it could still take months for them to reach...
Finally, there is Ward Littell, another FBI agent and Kemper's protege, a former Jesuit seminarian who works in the Chicago office tracking drab, hopeless domestic communists and hungering for a chance to put his massive idealism to better use. Kemper gives him the chance to do some sub rosa snooping for Bobby Kennedy, thereby condemning a number of people, including John F. Kennedy, to untimely death...