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Justice may be more mollified by another announcement made last week: Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates relinquished the title of CEO. Steve Ballmer, 43, president since 1998, was named to replace him. "Gates' sidestepping helps a little bit," says George Washington University law professor William Kovacic, "to the extent you change the face you have to deal with. Nobody speaks of Ballmer as the villain...
Schou believes sperm banks should practice "negative eugenics," testing for disease and severe genetic defects only to the extent that an average couple would. On the other hand, to supply a global marketplace, he is having to bend his principles. Cryos now supplies a few U.S. clinics with sperm, and in those cases has begun to provide more extensive donor profiles. To service increasing demand for non-Scandinavian ethnic types, Schou cooperates with a handful of overseas sperm banks...
...global scale, such technology has also become renowned for its ability to thwart the inquisitive nature of Big Brother. As a result, the magnitude and multitude of encryption legislation has quickly become a measuring stick for gauging the extent to which countries embrace the concept of free speech on the Internet. If a country allows Web sites originating from servers within its borders to install strong encryption software, its government is much less likely to be able to hack into personal and/or company files to gather evidence of illegal activities or alter the information therein. Though such a scenario might...
...There is no question that undergraduates have a very different lifestyle than people 10 or 15 years older," Lenicheck says. "And to some extent, [the student influence] is very evident...
...popular TV quizzes, not just Twenty-One. Myth has it that the accusations of rigging and the subsequent investigations drove the shows off the air. In truth, Question, Challenge and Twenty-One had all been canceled by the fall of 1958 because of plummeting ratings. When the full extent of the quiz-show tampering became clear during a 1959 congressional hearing, President Dwight Eisenhower called the deception "a terrible thing to do to the American public...