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GELL: The day before I went to see The Net, I happened to catch a cable TV rerun of my favorite computer-related flick ever, Jumping Jack Flash. This mid-80s film took place before the World Wide Web was popularized, and yet a female computer analyst somehow became involved in an international cyber-conspiracy. This film blended humor, action, romance and some fine classic rock by the 'Stones. Seeing this film made me excited to see The Net. I was expecting another Jumping Jack Flash, but I figured the new film would use better technology and have a smarter...
...Grady should be protected and, if found, sent immediately to Belgrade, where he would be released. Milosevic told a friend that he had plotted the pilot's exact coordinates for Frasure and instructed local commanders to refrain from shooting at planes sent to the rescue. Frasure sent a flash message to Washington relaying his conversation with the President, but the information remained in diplomatic channels and did not reach U.S. intelligence officials until two days later. By that time, the rescue was about to get under...
Those specters will probably push the two sides to a solution--this time. But other flash points abound. Already there are bitter disputes about cargo flights over the Pacific, complete with threats not to let each other's planes land, and an Eastman Kodak demand that Washington punish Japan for a supposed conspiracy that limits Kodak's sales of camera film there. The squabbling may boil over into global politics: Japan has announced that it will not join the U.S. in refusing to buy oil from Iran...
...understatements, Bunting's architectural book notes that the "Science Center is not entirely satisfactory from a visual standpoint." Designed in 1970, the building was financed largely by Edwin Land of the Polaroid Corporation. Many a Harvard students have peered out a Canaday window, trying to locate the building's flash and shutter...
Solomon said the group hopes to discover thecause of the flash fire in the remains of thechemical compounds which the students were workingwith...