Word: orderlies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...center's educational software is non-proprietary, meaning that users of the center's Web sites can change the actual programming of educational software downloaded in order to make them better serve their needs...
...ground attack should be considered. In public the Administration carefully stops short of categorically ruling it out. But the talk among policymakers has never progressed beyond the instant conclusion that "we don't think the American people would support that." Neither, they reckoned, would Congress. They didn't order up contingency plans for such an operation or even broach the subject with Clinton, who remains opposed to the idea...
Though an estimated 200,000 DNA profiles are run each year by states trying to document child-support or welfare payments, folks with paternity issues rarely have the wherewithal to order up a test on their own. About five years ago, however, that started to change. It was then that Caroline Caskey, 32, a French-literature major turned business student, thought to combine cutting-edge DNA analysis with old-fashioned, hawk-the-product marketing. A few years earlier, a lab headed by her father Thomas Caskey patented something called the "short tandem repeat," a shortcut method of sampling DNA. Caskey...
...forces of law and order have already made a powerful point. Time was when virus writers were able to act with impunity and bask in the glow of hacker fame. Now the same technology that allowed their work to spread so freely is being used to catch them. The irony was not lost on Spanska, creator of the Happy99 virus. "The perfect virus writer should not communicate with nobody," he wrote last week. He plans to disconnect his e-mail for a while and "think a little." The Melissa case should give him and his pals plenty of food...
Reproductive medicine has come a long way in a very short time. It is now a $1 billion-a-year industry that accounts for some 23,000 live births a year in the U.S. But its well-publicized mishaps have moral overtones. Are we interfering with the natural order of things, allowing doctors to play...