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...Internet pornography three weeks ago, a certain amount of controversy was to be expected. Computer porn, after all, is a subject that stirs strong passions. So does the question of whether free speech on the Internet should be sharply curtailed, as some Senators and Congressmen have proposed. But the "flame war" that ensued on the computer networks when the story was published soon gave way to a full-blown and highly political conflagration...
...computers and other high technology, and that makes him TIME's chief correspondent in cyberspace. The job has forced him to navigate a bafflingly complex electronic terrain, familiarize himself with mysterious local customs (or "Netiquette") and master a bizarre language featuring such expressions as "cluster geeking," "Easter egging" and "flame baiting." "In many ways," he says, "it is just like being on foreign assignment...
...last 10 years, he should have developed into an actor of moresurprising dimensions. But bad choices like "Blind Date" and "Hudson Hawk" brought him quickly back to earth. Now he is having a kind of resurgence, sparked first by his excellent performance in "Pulp Fiction," and blown into flame by the greatness of "Die Hard With a Vengeance...
...writers of international thrillers, on page or screen, must have whooped for joy when Vladimir Zhirinovsky began spouting his virulent nationalism. What if this character got his finger on the nuclear button? Why, there'd be a right-wing update of the old red menace. So here, lighting a flame under Cold War II, is Crimson Tide, a burly, chatty melodrama about the imminence of annihilation. On a U.S. nuclear submarine, only two men-grizzled old Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his starchy second-in-command, Lieut. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington)-have the power to trigger the apocalypse...
Dozens of teenage schoolchildren were killed in Taegu, South Korea, when a spark from a subway construction site ignited natural gas leaking from a broken pipeline, creating a tower of flame 150 ft. high. An estimated 100 people were killed in the explosion; hundreds more were injured. President Kim Young Sam blamed the accident on "carelessness...