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...could be anyone, of any moniker, who works in obscurity and creates something whose importance is not visible at sea level. The story of the year, 1859: Would that be John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and the onset of the American Civil War, or Darwin's Origin of Species...
...bearing e-mail that will trash your hard drive if you read it: As ZDnet reports, at least 10 sites and thousands of servers and workstations at MCI were crippled by a bug that disables executable files and locks users out of .DOC and .XLF files. And although the origin of the virus remains unknown, the fact that it was timed to propagate during the hours when MCI's tech support is least staffed strongly suggests a deliberate attack. One official grimly characterized the virus as the first legitimate incident of cyber-terrorism he had ever seen -- not a surprising...
With few clues to guide modern scientists, the origin and fate of the ancient rulers of Teotihuacan are a mystery to this day. But thanks to a discovery made this fall by an international research team, that mystery may finally be starting to unravel. In mid-October, archaeologists stumbled across a burial chamber deep inside Teotihuacan's massive Pyramid of the Moon. Inside they found a skeleton and more than 150 artifacts probably dating to about A.D. 150. It is, exults anthropologist Michael Spence of the University of Western Ontario, "a fantastic find...
Meanwhile, in a report made public last Friday, the U.S. General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, concluded after an eight-month probe that Citibank helped Salinas build "a money-managing system that disguised the origin, destination and beneficial owner of the funds involved...
While not even in the ballpark of the summer exodus to Limestone, Phish followers do travel from far and wide to crowd the Centrum to full capacity. Representing New York, Pennsylvania, and most of New England as well as various farther points of origin depending on the faithfulness of the followers, this year's crowd got to Worcester early and stayed late...