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...when you thought your new black-slab digital cell phone was safe from high-tech thieves hell-bent on calling Kuala Lumpur, a group of Silicon Valley cypherpunks have broken the proprietary encryption technology used in 80 million GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) phones nationwide, including Motorola MicroTAC, Ericsson GSM 900 and Siemens D1900 models...
Despite Brosnan championing the character's cause, the gadgetry and explosions win out. The action should have featured less gadgetry, and that gadgetry should have included fewer Ericsson mobile phones...
BRATTAHLID, Greenland: Vikings: not just in Minnesota anymore. Travel writer W. Hodding Carter and 11 other hardy souls set off today on a 1,900 mile trip to retrace the voyage of Viking explorer Leif Ericsson from Greenland to present-day Newfoundland. Squeezed into a 54-foot wooden boat (called a "knarr"), expedition members will chart their course by the stars and sun and dine on the succulent Viking staples of freshly caught fish and moss and lichens to be gathered at beaches along the way. In true Viking style, crew members will rely on just six oars...
...Super Bowl will be the first since 1991 without either the Cowboys or the 49ers on the field. Playing in their first-ever playoff game, the NFC West-champion Panthers (13-4) were three-point underdogs against the Cowboys, but made it a perfect nine-for-nine at Ericsson Stadium. Michael Irvin, the Cowboys' troubled star and go-to receiver, got a game's worth of alibi when he went down with a fractured collarbone on Dallas' first possession. The Carolina defense did the rest, intercepting Troy Aikman twice in the fourth quarter and holding Emmit Smith to 80 yards...
...consumers had best beware. "With all of today's sophistication about reproduction, the biology of sex selection remains a mystery," observes Elizabeth Whelan, director of the American Council on Science and Health, a consumer-education group, and author of Boy or Girl?, a 1977 book on sex selection. "Ericsson may be on to something," she allows, "but he hasn't proved it yet." -By Claudia Wallis...