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...moment the mad boss steps off his Air China jet in Los Angeles this week on the first stage of a scheduled American tour, he knows he will be in the cross hairs of U.S. anger at China's dismal human-rights record and allegations of nuclear espionage. "Let [Americans] vent their anger," said Zhu in a press conference last month. "I will go to tell the truth...
...matter of days, she was replicating herself all over cyberspace--from Berlin to Beijing, from the U.S. Marine Corps to the office of Republican Congressman Jim Talent--causing shutdowns in more than 300 computer networks. Worse still, her freely available source code soon spawned copycat viruses, like Papa and Mad Cow. Suddenly, Melissa wasn't sexy, crazy or even cool anymore. She was a menace to wired society...
...contrast with Clinton is favorable: credibility. Some blame for all this falls on Gore's jumbled and evolving campaign organization, which functions like a board of directors without a chairman, leaving his vice-presidential staff with the task of damage control. Still lacking is what one strategist calls the "mad genius"--the big-thinking Lee Atwater/James Carville/Dick Morris figure with a feel for the themes that will marry country and candidate. That role may be played in combination by pollster Mark Penn, media guru Bob Squier and Gore's savvy former chief of staff, Jack Quinn. But it's hard...
...British government report on "mad-cow disease" raises questions about the safety of British beef...
...book--the hot pursuit of glory, the race against the chemist Linus Pauling for the Nobel Prize that DNA would surely bring--got bad reviews from the (relatively) genteel Crick. He didn't recall anyone mentioning a Nobel Prize. "My impression was that we were just, you know, mad keen to solve the problem," he later said. But whatever their aims, Watson and Crick shared an attraction to DNA, and when they wound up in the same University of Cambridge lab, they bonded...