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...hotels and later at a CIA safe house. If he wanted to meet, he would make a chalk mark on a utility pole that was on his route home from the TASS office. The CIA paid him $3,000 a month. He also received small gifts-a German encyclopedia, for example. He was prolific: his reports fill four drawers in a CIA safe. He described "false flag" operations in which KGB agents recruited Germans while pretending to be South Africans or Israelis...
...week's end, it was unclear whether the Seven Months' War is really over or whether The Baseball Encyclopedia would sprout 600 new names this week...
...potential victim of all this convergence seems to be the industry supporting the CD-ROM, which is now the fastest-growing form of multimedia. A single 5-in.-diameter CD-ROM can hold everything from video games to a 21- volume encyclopedia. But within a decade, the millions of bits of information now stored on these discs will probably be piped into homes from video servers. That threat of eventual obsolescence, however, does little to alter projections of almost $10 billion a year in combined CD-ROM hardware and software sales in the interim...
...Give me the damn encyclopedia!'' I shout. Hearing the dread word, my nephews erupt from the rug and flee...
...look up Soldier Field. My old Analytic Geometry textbook, still flecked with insulation from the attic, has been sitting on my thigh like a lump of ice. By combining some formulas from it with the encyclopedia's stats...