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...around being stalked, if you feel that is indeed a problem. Use a POP client such as Eudora Pro or Outlook that collects your e-mail and brings it directly to your machine. That way, you can still read your e-mail without logging in and giving fuel to stalkers. But please don't set a precedent of disabling useful commands systemwide and placing undue burden on legitimate users. DEBORAH J. ABEL...
...nuclear missile. Nuclear power plants could be vulnerable to the same difficulties. Last year, when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission looked at the Seabrook plant in New Hampshire, it found that Y2K problems, unless fixed, would affect the computers that monitored such crucial functions as reactor-coolant levels and fuel-handling systems...
What a difference a little rocket fuel makes. Nozomi, an unmanned Japanese spacecraft on a mission to Mars since its launch last July, was supposed to reach the Red Planet's orbit this October. But an unforeseen adjustment in the craft's direction has used up more fuel than was projected, and Nozomi will be a little late -- four years, to be exact...
...error of one degree magnifies to many degrees when traveling on the ocean," says Kluger, "imagine what it's like in space." The mission must now wait for Mars to enter into a slower orbit around the sun in December 2003, at which point Nozuma will need less fuel to get into Martian orbit. Luckily the delay will not affect the mission's objective of broadcasting images and data back to Earth. And by then the Burger King should be open...
...whose waffling on global warming Hertsgaard notes with contempt. He concludes his book, as is customary, with a spoonful of optimism. The marvelous energy of capitalism, he suggests, could be put to conserving energy. Insulate more; heat and cool less. Build green fridges and cars that run on nonpolluting fuel cells...