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TECHNOLOGY The Michelangelo virus creates more hype than havoc...
...movie offers no marquee names and no special effects, only a small cup of poison for maternal peace of mind. In The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Rebecca De Mornay plays the Nanny from Hell, who insinuates herself into the home of a trusting family only to wreak havoc on it. In the weeks after the film climbed to No. 1, earning a stunning $65 million, magazines and newspapers have scurried to find real-life examples of psycho-nannies, which in turn drove home the not-so-subtle message that women who work and leave child rearing to others...
...hackers since 1982. (Didn't a certain medical epidemic start around that time?) Some of them--like the Kennedy virus, which leaves innocent messages on the screens of infected users on every anniversary of the deaths of JFK, RFK and Joseph Kennedy--are harmless. Others--like "Joshi", "which wreaked havoc upon Harvard's Office of Physical Resources--have serious attitude problems. Other viruses--Yankee Doodle, Blackjack, Dukakis, to name a few--have yet to reveal their destructive power. (For my money, Dukakis won't do anything...
...Shades of 1968. Get ready for throngs of militant aids activists outside the Houston Astrodome. ACT UP and Queer Nation have been booking hotel rooms and preparing for mass arrests. The protesters do not plan to apply for any permits, since that would reduce the opportunities for havoc. Houston police < are armed to the teeth with the latest in riot gear...
What has more Arizonans worried is that their populist political culture has run amuck. "It's the Wild West at its best," says Republican Senator Jan Brewer. "We don't stymie folks here. But that sometimes brings problems." That rugged individualism wreaked havoc in the 1980s on a state that was determined to maintain its boom economy. The fortunes that were once extracted from gold mines were now found in real estate and land development. But an economic downturn combined with a more involved electorate has brought an end to that freewheeling past...