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Most card readers are set up to accommodate only the residents of a particular House or dorm, Lichten says, meaning that the switch to universal access would mandate a memory increase in many of the older readers. However, Lichten says that some of the newer systems are capable of handling...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The ID Card: What Happens When You Swipe? | 1/6/1999 | See Source »

So what have we learned two months into this decade's Trial of the Century? For one thing, if all the Justice Department had to do to win its antitrust case was to embarrass Microsoft, Bill Gates would be in Washington right now cutting a deal. The low-light of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft Trial: New Year, Old Story | 1/4/1999 | See Source »

For them, government interference with private economic behavior remains a bad thing, but regulation of other kinds of private behavior, chiefly meaning sex, is something America needs more of. This is the line of thought represented most famously by Robert Bork in his 1996 best seller, Slouching Towards Gomorrah. Bork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where The Right Went Wrong | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

When Captain Ahab, in his relentless pursuit of Moby Dick, had a doubloon nailed to the mast of the Pequod, each member of his crew saw reflected in it a different meaning. So too was it with the findings that Starr nailed to our consciousness this year, and so too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Made the Choice | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

Until then, the FBI and the CIA considered bin Laden, son of a Saudi construction magnate, to be a "Gucci terrorist" with a fat wallet and a big mouth. His followers were a loosely bound group of former Afghan freedom fighters called al Qaeda, meaning (military) base. But bin Laden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Hunt For Osama | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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