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...case first came to light in the West German weekly Quick, which identified the suspect as a 24-year-old computer-science student with the pseudonym Mathias Speer. In a press conference last week, his pursuer, Stoll, described how the young hacker used the Lawrence Lab computer as a gateway to Internet, a U.S. Government-owned network that connects some 20,000 computers handling scientific research and unclassified military work. While Speer used fairly standard techniques for cracking passwords, he showed uncommon persistence. He attacked some 450 different computers and gained access to more than 30. Victims ranged from...
History may have abandoned this backwater metropolis, once heralded as "the gateway to America," but life goes on in stunning profusion. Garcia Marquez generously populates a place "where everything was known, and where many things were known even before they happened, above all if they concerned the rich." But the constant gossip actually pays little heed to class distinctions. Whatever their status, the author's characters energetically play their parts in the human comedy. They are born to die. Hearts are enchanted, broken and sometimes put back together again. Wisdom accrues to those who have grown too old to profit...
...AIDS virus; only 35,000 are in drug- treatment programs. One result: growing numbers of women of childbearing age in the city are infected -- most of them through intravenous drug use or sexual contact with users. Says City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph: "The IV drug user is the gateway to the heterosexual population." That threat to public health persuaded Axelrod to permit an exception to a state law forbidding distribution or possession of needles without a prescription. His decision legally paved the way for a pilot program for 400 addicts. The group will receive counseling in the ways that...
...That's how things have always been done in Ellsworth, one neighbor counting on another. Ellsworth is the shire town of Hancock County, some two-thirds up the Maine coast, and gateway to the summer resorts of Bar Harbor. For more than 200 years, the town has hugged the Union River, which spills out into Union River Bay and eventually the bold Atlantic. The town was named for Oliver Ellsworth, an early Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Folks here are friendly. They can't help themselves. But Down Easters draw a line between outsiders -- "people from away" -- and locals...
...learn on marijuana, and marijuana attracts the young. It kills their time, robs their attention and stunts their development. Use it often enough in your teen years, and you get to adulthood having lost crucial months, years, of emotional and intellectual growth. Second, marijuana is a gateway to harder drugs, the stuff like cocaine and heroin that can destroy people in very short order...