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When U.S. embassies in Africa were car-bombed last August, Clinton sent the Tomahawks after the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. The U.S. Navy launched about 80 of them--at $750,000 each, that's some $60 million. What bang did Clinton get for his bucks? The missiles tore up some sheds and shacks at a training area in Afghanistan and demolished a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, which might or might not have been producing nerve-gas ingredients. The Tomahawks did not severely disrupt the bin Laden operation. But they gave the Administration the appearance of taking action...
...products made from old-growth wood. The environmentalists threaten to follow up with newspaper ads, frequent pickets and civil disobedience at selected stores around the U.S.--unless the company agrees. "Home Depot is the biggest old-growth retailer in the world," says Randall Hayes, president of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a leader of the campaign. "Stopping them from selling old growth is the most important thing we can do to save these ancient cathedral forests and these 2,000-year-old trees." Only 22% of the world's old-growth forests remain intact, mostly in Brazil, Canada and Russia...
...panel discussion on TV newsmagazines a few weeks ago, 60 Minutes founder and executive producer Don Hewitt took a defiant stand--against them. Rather than filling a need for more news programming, he argued, these shows are created mainly to fill gaps in the network schedule. Said he: "Behind every newsmagazine"--with a couple of exceptions, notably one show with a ticking stopwatch--"there's a failed sitcom...
According to the court report, Brad N. Karp, a tutor in Dunster, noticed Trifero on the Dunster system, and notified bbsnet.com, which was able to trace Trifero's path through the computer network...
...Computer Services prefer to be notified about security incidents that occur on the FAS network," Osterberg said...