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...Telemail system is a communications service with 17,000 individual customers. Manager of Public Affairs Claudia Houston could not speculate on why her company has been the object of fifteen separate computer intrusions...

Author: By Ellen P. Goodman, | Title: FBI Confiscates Students' Computer In Cornell Crackdown on Illegal Use | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

DARTMOUTH 7, YALE 0-The Elis enter this one 0-6. The Big Green is 3-0 in league play. This is the answer to the old question: What happens when the irresistable force meets the world's least stable object...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: On the B-Rink | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

Other councilors questioned why Cambridge officials were not better informed of the facility's purpose before it went into operation October 14. "I object to being told last week in a press release that this is going on," said Councilor Francis H. Duehay...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: Council Forms Committee To Give Advice on Science | 10/25/1983 | See Source »

...never seen. Although its proliferating population remains China's greatest obstacle to modernization, I agree with White that human envy and appetite are potentially equally dangerous perils. While walking down a bustling Shanghai boulevard, I encountered a swarm of people surrounding a street merchant. What was the object of everyone's smiling fascination? A Rubik's Cube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 17, 1983 | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

When, on the other hand, a Watt makes jokes such as his latest, he becomes an object of contempt, because it is clear from his timing, context and formulation that he feels no sympathy whatever with the viewpoint of his critics nor with their having an opposing viewpoint. In truth, the wisecrack about the coal-leasing commission could have amused only those who see affirmative action as a wrong idea that is not funny, rather than as a right idea that may also be funny. One cannot know without inspecting the Interior Secretary's interior if he personally abhors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why Reagan is Funny and Watt Not | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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