Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California, have declared authority over federal lands within their boundaries. Other estimates put the number far higher. The National Federal Lands Conference, a Utah organization devoted to fostering resistance, believes more than 300 counties have claimed some degree of sovereignty over federal lands, and many more have considered the idea, including counties in states as far east as Maine and Florida...
...Gingrich's presidential ambitions, the White House is salivating at the idea. Pointing to a poll indicating that 80% of Republicans oppose his running, a White House aide says, "Go ahead, make...
Some other attempts at reform hold more promise. Karl Paschke, who occupies the new post of Under Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, is energetically investigating and reporting on how well various agencies do their jobs--a revolutionary idea for the U.N. Says Paschke: "After seven months on the job, I think the U.N. is a good example of waste and inefficiency." Unfortunately, Paschke's authority is limited to those few agencies directly responsible to the Secretariat...
...tiny energy imbalance in certain nuclear reactions, but it would also be so ethereal that the average neutrino could zip through a trillion-mile-thick chunk of lead without hitting a single atom. Since the particles would presumably sail undetected through any measuring device, Pauli lamented, his clever idea could never be proved correct...
...find a security hole in the beta, or test, version of its latest browser software. Under the so-called Bugs Bounty program, the first person to identify a "significant" security flaw wins $1,000. Lesser bugs earn smaller prizes ranging from $40 sweatshirts to $12 coffee mugs. The idea, explains a company spokesperson, is to get hackers to hack when it will do the Netscape some good--before the product is officially released...