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...Saddam Hussein as he led his troops into battle against the armed forces of the United States? Are we at Harvard truly in the practice of honoring men who supported the invasion of nations, the inexcusable bombardment of others, and the slaughter of our very own soldiers in this manner...
...health plans rated most satisfactory by 10,272 members of 33 different HMOs were: Kaiser Permanente in Connecticut; Aetna Health Plan in greater Cleveland; Cigna Healthplans in Houston; Oxford Health Plans in New Jersey; and Kaiser Permanente in Southern California. Even the best could work on their bedside manner, however. CareData reports that customers who were pleased with their HMOs tended to think the medical care was better than the customer service. At the same time, healthier patients may find it easier to have confidence in HMOS. The survey found that younger patients tended to be happier than older ones...
...Forest Service most of the uplands. The Defense Department too claims huge chunks of the county, including the Nevada Test Site, where it detonated hundreds of nuclear devices, and the Tonopah Test Range, the darling of paranormal buffs, who know it by the nickname Dreamland and suspect that all manner of spooky events have occurred there. Even the airspace over Nye is largely restricted to military aircraft. Jet fighters scream up Carver's Big Smoky Valley, occasionally roaring past cars at sagetop altitude. A bank of nuclear-radiation sensors, still religiously monitored, stands outside the county's old courthouse...
...Java is supposed to screen these applets to make sure they can't do any damage to the computer that receives them. But to Sun's--and Netscape's--acute embarrassment, the version that appeared in Netscape's latest browser had a loophole big enough to let through all manner of software viruses. Netscape's programmers caught the bug last week before it could do any harm--and before they had to hand out any prizes...
...cast doubts on Japan's willingness to cooperate in maintaining global financial security. "If Japan's or any country's regulatory authorities become aware of significant financial issues of concern to the U.S.," said a U.S. Treasury spokesman icily, "we would expect to be fully informed in a timely manner." Daiwa's president resigned his post...