Word: mischiefism
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...care about animals. I'm pro-fur and pro-animal testing, and though it's not my preferred method of gambling, cockfighting is fine with me. But I do love mischief. And from what I can tell, the animal-loving freaks at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are the only ones having any fun. So I called Tracy Reiman, leader of peta's Commando Chicks, a group of women who dress in skimpy showgirl outfits to protest chicken eating. These women were willing to degrade themselves for animals. That...
...human villain of the piece is Senator Kelly (Bruce Davison), a suaver Joe McCarthy. He wants mutants registered because, he says, their eccentric gifts make them dangerous. Well, the mutant hunter is right! Magneto and his gang have planet-altering mischief in mind...
...great surprise to law-enforcement officials that it appears to have been hatched on a campus in the developing world. They say small cells of hackers--some at colleges, others in contact only electronically--pose an unprecedented threat to the computer systems of the industrialized world. For some, computer mischief is an educational exercise, a way to hone their computer skills. Others do it for sport or profit or the fun of committing large-scale vandalism. And for a growing number, the motivation is ideological or nationalistic. Cybercops have begun focusing on a small number of hacker havens--similar...
...snippets of biography Mr. Sankoh has released are often contradictory. He is reported variously to have worked as a wedding and portrait photographer and as a cameraman for the state TV service, spending time in jail for anti-government activities before finding himself, in 1991, a guest of regional mischief-maker Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi. The Libyan leader persuaded Sankoh and former hairdresser and nightclub dancer Sam "General Mosquito" Bockarie to form the Revolutionary United Front and fight Sierra Leone's government. They trained alongside Liberia's Charles Taylor, who went on to litter his own road to his country...
...Unless we start to control emissions of CO2 and similar compounds, global mean temperatures will probably rise somewhere between 2[degrees]F and 7[degrees]F by the end of the next century; even the low end of that spectrum could set the stage for a lot of meteorological mischief. Among other things, the higher the temperature, the more rapidly moisture can evaporate from the earth's surface and condense as rain droplets in clouds, substantially increasing the risk of both drought and torrential rain. There could also be a rise in the number of severe storms, such...