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Computer viruses are sneaky, omnipresent and out of control -- but are they alive? The British physics giant Stephen Hawking thinks so. In a speech given at Apple Computer's Macworld Expo in Boston, the wheelchair-bound author of "A Brief History of Time" mused that computer viruses meet all the definitions of life, except for the fact that they have no metabolism. Instead, Hawking said, they're parasites that feed off the metabolisms of the host computers they destroy: "I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely...
...getting through. In the Washington area, four network affiliates sparked a free-speech controversy by turning down a 2- min. ad, produced by a pro-Clinton group, which attacks the Pizza Hut company for failing to provide health coverage for all its workers. Pizza Hut, owned by TV advertising giant Pepsico, has been a foe of the Clinton plan's employer mandate...
...amateur astronomers are still peering intently through their backyard telescopes to get a glimpse of the bruises that Shoemaker-Levy 9 left on Jupiter -- the most prominent features ever seen on the giant planet -- and others are thronging to observatories and planetariums to see what all the fuss was about. Scientists who last week barely had time to sleep, let alone think, are finally turning their attention away from spectacular pictures and starting the long, difficult process of seeing what they can learn from the great comet crash of 1994. Says Keith Noll, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science...
...asked U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher to open the spigot full blast. The Secretary voiced sympathy but reiterated the demands of donors for strict accounting controls. Arafat fumes at such "economic occupation," but donors, recalling the P.L.O.'s freewheeling spending habits, have reason to fear creation of a giant slush fund...
...mostly Canadian U.N. force is mostly on its own until 4,000 or more U.S. troops arrive within days. BTW: Americans have contributed at least $39 million in aid to Rwandan refugees this month, from $1 donations from 11 senior citizens to $30 million in medicine from pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co. The last time Americans pitched in on this scale: $100 million during the Ethiopian famine...