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...recently as 1994, Gao Feng, now 47, earned $100 a month as a machine repairman in a state-run textile factory in Shanghai. Then the nearly bankrupt firm laid off 300 workers, promising Gao 300 yuan a month to stay home. "These changes offered new opportunities," says Gao, and so he cobbled together $1,100 and enrolled in a course for taxi drivers. Gao now drives a shiny Santana cab for another state enterprise, and his take-home pay is pegged to his own moxie. On average, he says, he earns $240 a month plying his route from...
...Israelis require coach flyers to arrive at the airport three hours before takeoff, while business-class ticket holders must arrive two hours early. "Will the American public be willing to sit there for hours and hours just waiting?" wonders Louis J. Rodrigues, who led the gao inquiry. "We have to agree, as a country, that the threat is significant enough to warrant that kind of inconvenience...
...make him look good." The program, which will help school districts pay for repair costs and new construction, apparently is Clinton's response to a General Accounting Office report released two weeks ago that documented serious decay in the many of the nation's 80,000 public schools. Another GAO report has estimated that repairing and upgrading schools would cost $11 billion. Clinton plans to pay for his $5 billion program with funds from the federal government's auctions of communications licenses, which have generated about $20 billion. But the Republican-led Congress is unlikely to welcome another federally-funded...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As many as 250,000 attempts are made every year to infiltrate Pentagon computers, according to a government study released Wednesday. The GAO report said that hackers made more than 160,000 successful entries into military computer networks last year. It recommended that the Pentagon create a greater degree of computer file accountability, institute rigorous training in computer security and develop better capability for reacting to computer break-ins. GAO information management chief Jack Brock told a Senate subcomitte hearing of an infamous 1994 case where a16 year old British teenager broke into the computer...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As many as 250,000 attempts are made every year to infiltrate Pentagon computers, according to a government study released Wednesday. The GAO report said that hackers made more than 160,000 successful entries into military computer networks last year. It recommended that the Pentagon create a greater degree of computer file accountability, institute rigorous training in computer security and develop better capability for reacting to computer break-ins. GAO information management chief Jack Brock told a Senate subcomitte hearing of an infamous 1994 case where a16 year old British teenager broke into the computer...