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With Quittner's arrival, TIME has definitely become an information have. He comes to us after eight years on the beat at New York Newsday, where he wrote a weekly column called ``Life in Cyberspace.'' Says Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who pioneered the info-tech beat at TIME before being promoted last year to senior editor: ``Josh not only knows his way around cyberspace--and can write about it with grace and wit--but he's amazingly prolific...
...officials admitted today they were investigating suspected sabotage of Tower Air's fleet at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. The charter airline says there have been five incidents of sabotage to its Boeing 747s in the past three months. Newsday, which broke the story, today reported that investigators have not ruled out terrorism as a motive because Tower Air flies to Israel. Another possibility: disgruntled workers.Post your opinion on theScience & Technologybulletin board...
...been hacked," says Quittner, who writes about computers -- and hackers -- for the newspaper Newsday, and will start writing for TIME in January. Not only had someone jammed his Internet mailbox with thousands of unwanted pieces of E-mail, finally shutting down his Internet access altogether, but the couple's telephone had been reprogrammed to forward incoming calls to an out-of-state number, where friends and relatives heard a recorded greeting laced with obscenities. "What's really strange," says Quittner, "is that nobody who phoned -- including my editor and my mother -- thought anything of it. They just left their messages...
...have a budget in place by Monday, [Proctor] will, in effect, become the first deputy mayor of the city," the insider told Newsday...
...easy to negotiate when you don't know what your aim is," Proctor told Newsday...