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...absence of specific federal laws aimed at computer criminals, nearly two dozen states have passed a series of conflicting and ineffective statutes. "It's a terrible patchwork of law," says Donn Parker, a computer-crime expert at SRI International. "Sometimes the results have been disastrous." According to a recent estimate, only one in 33 reported computer crimes results in a conviction...
...victory was not patchwork. Mondale swept nearly every age and income group. "We won everyone but the rich Wasps," crowed an aide. The landslide left Mondale ebullient. "If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere," he told a roaring victory celebration, paraphrasing a line from the Theme from New York, New York. The victory brought his delegate total to 900, compared with Hart's 520, and emphatically proved that Mondale can win the support of voters as well as party bosses...
...favela-of Vila Soco, in the southern Brazilian town of Cubatao, was simply too low. Only 86 bodies were recovered after a gasoline-fed blaze exploded into a giant fireball that looked like an atomic mushroom cloud. Yet some 9,000 people lived in Vila SocÓ, a patchwork of wooden shacks built on stilts over a marshy swamp. Coroner Carlos Affonso Figueiredo found it strange that no bodies of children under five years of age had been discovered among the ashes and in the hot rubble that burned 8.5 acres...
...time, the OEO built 400 houses on the Rosebud reservation--and Nancy White Horse was as good as her word. The quilt she sent was a brilliant patchwork of red, orange and white, with a large green star at the center. Diane and I still have it, buy we do not sleep beneath it: the artwork seems to delicate, the colors too fresh, to stand nightly wear and tear. Besides, our house has central heating...
When Reddog (1737 Mass. Ave.) opened 11 years ago, customers came in search of used denims, patchwork skirts, and flannel shirts. "We don't even carry them now," says owner Cindy Crosby...