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QUICK, THE RAID. Everyone knows that the computer industry is fighting against viruses, malicious programs that can infect whole networks and crash them. So it stands to perverse reason that hush-hush agencies like the CIA and NSA are trying to create such bugs as offensive weapons. The latest entrant in this quest is the U.S. Army, which is soliciting bids on a half-million dollar contract to develop tactical virus weapons capable of disabling enemy computers on the battlefield. The proposal has raised eyebrows among the military's hackers. Says one Army computer-security officer: "Many of my colleagues...
...warned the class of "the pervasive distrust and cynicism that infect public life today," citing the gradual erosion of the public's faith in American government beginning with the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal...
Pieroth's first priority will be to eliminate the absurdities that now infect the system. Some 85% of East Germany's economy is controlled by 220 unwieldy state Kombinate (conglomerates), whose production has been dictated by ill-conceived five-year plans rather than by supply and demand. Heavy- industry manufacturers, for instance, have had to shoehorn consumer goods into their production lines, so that TuR, East Germany's largest producer of electrical transformers, also makes appliances for melting cheese at home...
...sneezing and coughing or through contact with mucus on hands or objects. Transmission is faster in places with poor ventilation, such as rooms with closed windows, crowded classrooms, nursing homes and public transportation systems. On planes, where the air is continuously recirculated, just one flu- ridden passenger can infect all the rest...
...trip laden with symbolism, Gorbachev visited neighboring Finland, a dexterous nation that has maintained friendly relations with Moscow while retaining political and economic independence. "Finlandization" used to be derided as a form of latter-day appeasement that might infect Western Europe; now it is considered a model for the relationship that Poland or Hungary could achieve...