Word: naming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Soon I had a fan club. My name was chanted by people I had never met, and I felt the warm, soft love America feels for pathetic losers. It felt good...
DIED. JACOBO TIMERMAN, 76, voluble Argentine journalist and activist imprisoned and tortured by military forces after the 1976 overthrow of President Isabel Peron; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires. Timerman's 1981 best seller, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, sparked international outrage over human-rights abuses...
Most of us are unaware of being watched. But if you surf the net half an hour a day, chances are there's an online profile of you--not the you who has a name, Social Security number and address but a cyber you who reflects your online behaviors and can help marketers target ads especially for you. Already, some of the ads you see when you hit sites like Yahoo or Lycos are there because you are. Other visitors are getting different ads that cater to their online profiles...
...mail computer virus called the Bubbleboy virus? That's a weird name...
...bubble. The corrupted e-mail registers the recipient in his or her Outlook Express program as "Bubbleboy" of "Vandelay Industries" (a reference to one of George Costanza's fictional workplaces). Melissa, an earlier e-mail virus, makes a similarly hip reference to the Simpsons when opened, but the name itself supposedly came from a stripper in Florida, where the accused author of the program once lived. No one has yet found Melissa herself, though many have looked...