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Well, here's a fine how-de-do. The networks keep churning out trendy sitcoms and hip ensemble dramas in a desperate (and largely futile) attempt to attract young viewers. Then CBS trots out an old-fashioned frontier drama, slips it almost sheepishly into the little-watched Saturday-night schedule, and gives it the clumsiest title on TV, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Darned if the homespun series doesn't catch on. Aside from coattail successes like Love and War (which follows Murphy Brown) and The Jackie Thomas Show (after Roseanne), it's the biggest new hit of the season...
...with Darci and Darly's escape from prison last Monday, Brazil's western frontier has regained its reputation for lawlessness. Despite repeated warnings that lax security made a jailbreak all but inevitable, state and federal government officials paid no attention. Once again, rubber tappers fear more violence. "This place could turn into a war zone," warned Gumercindo Rodrigues of the Xapuri Rural Workers' Union. Inundated with protests from environmental groups, the Brazilian government vowed to recapture the gunmen. "They'll never find them," predicted Mendes' widow Ilzamar, who accused local authorities of complicity in the escape. A police manhunt...
...town of Irun, on the Spanish-French frontier, Jan. 1 marked the end of Juan Manuel Retegui's career. Until then, 1,500 trucks a day would pass through the border's vast customs complex, with its long rows of loading bays and warehouses. Retegui and his 1,275 fellow agents, inspectors and clerks thrived on the red tape generated by $1 billion worth of trade a year. "Lines of trucks would stretch up the road," said Retegui. "Shops and bars were packed with people...
...always thought of it as living on the racial frontier," Attah says...
...gang was framed by a rival hacker who liquidated the Learning Link himself. The defendants' court-appointed lawyers claim the feds have built an elaborate Mafia-like case against rebellious yet relatively harmless kids. "Being arrogant and obnoxious is not a crime," argues attorney Michael Godwin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that defends exploratory hacking. As for Masters of Disaster, he adds, "it's just a way-cool name. Teenagers aren't going to call themselves the Electronic Birdwatchers Society." While most charges remain to be proved, in December two MOD members pleaded guilty to selling Rosenfeld passwords...