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...infected host computer first sent a short message through "electronic mail" over the Internet to the target computer. By using a number of tricks, Morris' program made the target machine treat the message as a command program instead of ordinary mail, which the computer places into a file to be read by users if they wish. The message--now acting like a program--told each computer which received it to ask the host computer for the rest of the virus, according to Mckay Professor of Computer Science Mark Friedell...
When the machine had been completely infected, the virus entered its third stage, taking on the task of spreading itself to other machines. The target became a new host, and began sending its own headers to other machines on the network...
...Crimson (6-3-3 overall, 3-1-1 Ivies) has been suffering from a host of problems--not least of which is its inability to score goals. Harvard maintained possession for the majority of the game, taking a season-high 31 shots, but once again the team couldn't finish its scoring opportunities. Brown goalie Doug Tudor was forced to make only five saves...
Ecotopia is set in 1999, nearly 20 years after Washington, Oregon and much of California, sickened by environmental degradation, swollen military budgets and inflation in the U.S., have announced their secession from the Union. They have outlawed the internal-combustion engine, banned a host of consumer products, from microwave ovens to electric can openers, and expropriated all waterfront property. They have also encouraged such an independent spirit in women that they have become sexual predators and even control the ruling party. Into this world of spartan but sensual living comes a reporter, the first American to visit Ecotopia since independence...
When George Bush and Michael Dukakis breezed into Houston during the same week this fall for $1,000-a-plate fund raisers, Enron, a Texas oil-and-gas firm, had both sides covered. The company's Republican chairman, Kenneth Lay, was co-host for the Bush event, while Democratic president John Seidl attended the Dukakis affair. The hedged positioning made sense: with a victory in November, either presidential candidate, along with the new Congress, could have a profound impact on the energy industry...