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TIME's Joshua Quittner says a serious security flaw found in Netscape, the most popular World Wide Web browser, probably won't cast a pall over emerging electronic commerce. Two University of California at Berkeley graduate students have found that a knowledgeable computer user could crack the system in less then a minute, potentially giving users access to information such as credit card or bank account numbers. Netscape Communications plans to rush out a secure version of the software next week. "This is an interesting academic exercise, but online transactions are still a relatively minor part of the Internet," Quittner...
...convinced that many of the faint, fuzzy patches of light that dot the night sky are really huge clumps of interstellar gas that act as cosmic nurseries -- the places where new stars are born. The glow comes from infant suns lighting up the clouds, like fireworks illuminating their surrounding pall of smoke. "Fireworks" is an apt description, since the prevailing theory among astronomers is that star birth must be a cataclysmically violent process. But without detailed pictures of what's going on-something that is impossible to get from ground-based telescopes-the scientists have had no conclusive...
...four pall-bearers removed Ho's coffin from the chapel...
...over coincided with a public burial atMilton Cemetery. His pall bearers included fivestate troopers and two friends since childhood...
Four years on the shores of the Charles give one a long time to ponder questions of great metaphysical importance. Inevitably, Harvard first-years spend countless evenings discussing the afterlife, the nature of truth, and the congenital incompetence of University Health Services. But by senior year, the pall of alienation and anomie have descended upon the residents of the college, and discussion turns to more mundane and materialistic subjects: law school, investment banking, and fellowships...