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...around the world. The fact that a suspected virus writer got caught was unusual enough. Even stranger were the bedfellows who beat a path to his door: a Boston software entrepreneur, a Swedish student, a deputy state attorney general, the nation's largest Internet service provider, a whole passel of antivirus experts and the FBI. What these sleuths found, and where they found it, may become a blueprint for nabbing future digital delinquents...
...most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives," Twain once wrote. Great yarn spinners are few and far between these days, but one place to find a passel of them is Nevada City, Calif., about 115 miles west of Virginia City. Each summer the old gold-mining town is host to the Sierra Storytelling Festival. "You can put a six-year-old and a 90-year-old together," says founder Steve Sanfield, "and with the right story, they will both feel a deep connection." Tickets for this year's festival (July...
...featured a former U.S. attorney general and a passel of historians, star experts for the Clinton defense who gave their view on whether the President has committed an impeachable offense (he hasn't). This was followed by three Nixon impeachment veterans who gave their "what would the Rodino committee do" take (they wouldn't impeach). Still to come: Witnesses discussing abuses of power and defining whether obstruction of justice and perjury has been committed (our guess: it hasn't). The big guns come tomorrow when Clinton tries to appeal to the swing vote, the moderate Republicans, by trotting...
When the 1980s and '90s turned into the age of personal investment--courtesy of the 401(k)--as well as celebrity capitalism--courtesy of Michael Milken's junk bonds and the bull market--MONEY was joined by a passel of rivals, including SmartMoney, Worth and Mutual Funds, each of which made the eternal promise of investment journalism--pssst, you can beat the market...
Although Windows 98 is hardly revolutionary, I recommend it to any PC user. My biggest beef is that Microsoft isn't giving Windows 98 away. Only a monopoly vendor of operating systems could sell a product, Windows 95, that contains a passel of annoying glitches, then charge $89 to fix it under the guise of an "upgrade." There is, I'm told, a more charitable way to look at this: "If you've been using Windows 95 since the beginning, you can consider Windows 98 the reward for your patience," says the sunny Kip Crosby, who co-wrote The Windows...