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...like opening a love letter or reading a joke) and it turns into something really rotten. It's kind of like leaving an unpleasant package in someone's mailbox and watching them open it. Hacking is, of course, a huge power trip for a young kid who gets to inflict this kind of inconvenience or actual discomfort on a whole lot of grown-ups, including the heads of the same corporations many of these kids might like to see humiliated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Kind of Germ Creates a Computer Virus? | 6/20/2000 | See Source »

...drown it for good. It lives! Only it now looks like a pretty tame beast. A little slower growth in U.S. production, a little more inflation before the slowdown takes effect, a bit more unemployment, eventually, maybe...that's about the worst damage that the cycle is expected to inflict. Unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And The Beat Slows Down | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...would give me pleasure, I'm afraid, to inflict all of these punishments, one by one and slowly, upon the two men who - as you may have heard - engaged in cold-blooded massacre in a Wendy's fast food restaurant in the New York City borough of Queens last week. They herded seven employees together, silenced them with duct tape, and methodically shot each one in the head, killing five, before they robbed the till and fled. They were later arrested. There is not the slightest doubt that the police have the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Death Penalty Does Us No Credit | 6/2/2000 | See Source »

...conduct the study, Yokota timed the duration of violence--defined in the study as "intentional acts...where the aggressor makes some physical contact that has potential to inflict injury or harm...

Author: By Sarah J. Ramer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: G-Movies Contain Violence, Study Concludes | 5/26/2000 | See Source »

...Supreme Court brief that Fried co-authored, he argues that if the commerce clause were interpreted so liberally, it would have to include not only gender-based crimes but "all crime...all activities which inflict injuries unintentionally…insomnia, obesity and a lack of exercise...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HLS Hosts Women's Rights Debate | 5/2/2000 | See Source »

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