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...restriction on high-performance computers to foreign countries. On Thursday the President decided to raise the limits on the power of computers that can be sold to more than 100 countries in Central Europe, Latin America and Asia without going through laborious licensing procedures. Good business, or rather the loss of good business, was the basic rationale. "Computers that are widely used by businesses and can be manufactured by European, Japanese and Asian companies will soon exceed the limits that I established on high-performance computers in 1996," said the President...
...LOSS OF HABITAT Gorillas still roam extensive areas in Central Africa. But they find themselves increasingly confined to smaller and smaller islands of forest, only a fraction of which have been set aside as wild-animal preserves. Logging is a major problem, although if done prudently the displacement is temporary; the removal of selected trees can even increase, over time, the type of vegetation gorillas prefer. Logging roads, on the other hand, are deadly because they provide access to poachers...
...that Fox has exploited M*A*S*H by selling reruns to its local stations and then to its own cable station FX at bargain-basement prices compared with what it charges non-Fox-owned stations. Fox apparently contends it charged fair-market prices. But one source maintains the loss in M*A*S*H money is "tens of millions of dollars," part of it owed to the duo. Gelbart resolved the matter (translation: financial settlement) last month, but Alda is scheduled to go to trial in August. According to his lawyer, the actor has finally declared, "Enough is enough...
Still, Kasparov's new online adventure touches an even deeper and more immediate anxiety we have--or should have--about computers and the Internet. (Vague techno-paranoia, after all, has a limited appeal; someone pointed out at the time of Kasparov's loss that humans have been losing races to their own invention--the bicycle--for some time now without disastrous consequences). How is the internet changing the way we interact with one other...
...chess on the Internet fill the same role? For that matter, can e-commerce replace the corner bookstore without a net loss to the community? The answer is no: By turning to the Internet for things we once filled through human interaction, we are losing something as a society, a little bit of the glue that holds us together...