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...cashless. In Paris cosmetics maker L'Oreal shut down its e-mail servers, as did businesses throughout the Continent. As much as 70% of the computers in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden were laid low. The companies affected made up a Who's Who of industry and finance, including Ford, Siemens, Silicon Graphics and Fidelity Investments. Even Microsoft, whose software was the Love Bug's special target, got so badly battered that it finally severed outside e-mail links at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters...
...report on the newly released trove of documents about the Vietnam War [HISTORY, April 24], I'm not sure which of President Gerald Ford's "humiliations" bothered me the most--his comment that "no one knows more than I how humiliating it was...[to] watch our troops get kicked out of Vietnam" or his reference to the "military humiliation" there. Notwithstanding the end result of the Vietnam conflict, the U.S. troops' clear domination of nearly every fire fight makes it hard to consider this a military humiliation. Vietnam was a political and domestic failure. The true humiliation? Well, that...
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you: On Thursday, the scion of the Ford Motor Company made the startling admission that sport utility vehicles could pose a serious risk other motorists and (gasp!) the environment. No one was surprised by the facts themselves, mind you, but the source of the admission caught some industry analysts and environmentalists off guard. Ford, which has based its spectacular recovery and a hefty proportion of its profits on a hugely successful sport utility vehicle line, seemed to be shooting itself in the accelerator foot by pointing an unequivocally accusatory finger...
...exactly. While company chairman William Clay Ford is obviously interested in bolstering Ford's budding reputation as the "green" carmaker, he's hardly blind to profit. Ford will continue to build its giants, Mr. Ford declared Thursday, including the hulking Ford Excursion, because the market demand still exists. Off in the wings, however, the company will investigate ways to make SUVs less toxic - and will also research more manageable (i.e., smaller) alternatives to the ubiquitous monster trucks. The threat of increased gas prices, after all, continues to hang over the car industry, and a sharp increase in rates followed...
...Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), sponsored by the UN itself. And he must have seen Bert Bolin, chair of the IPCC, admit in debate that the vast majority of warming this century took place before 1940. Aaah, the good old days--so many cars on the road that Henry Ford even let you "choose between black and black...