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...other public agencies, has targeted 35 of the 54 peaks for restoration. Every weekend a small army of volunteers heads for the hills, blazing trails, shoring up paths and redirecting misguided streamlets. On Humboldt Peak, more than 400 tons of rock were hauled in by rope and bucket to plug a 4-ft.-deep gully that ran for a quarter-mile. On Grays Peak, a well-groomed trail to the summit will be fashioned to replace a spiderweb of paths that climbers have etched haphazardly in the tundra. On Bierstadt, which has been singled out for attention this summer, workers...
University officials pulled the plug on Packet Storm Security, a controversial Web site Harvard had been hosting, after discovering that the site contained an off-color parody, administrators said this week...
University officials pulled the plug on Packet Storm Security, a controversial Web site Harvard had been hosting, after discovering that the site contained an off-color parody, administrators said this week...
This escape from reality (like a more traditional favorite, drugs) can cause problems back in the real world. For six percent of Internet users, according to a study of 18000 users last year, the Web is a plug-in hallucinogen, a refuge from reality and an addiction. The psychological symptoms of this addiction, according to the study, include loneliness, low self-esteem and depression...
...service and moored just off Sausalito, Calif., in San Francisco Bay. But his real home is the virtual world of the Net, an insight he achieved while hunched over a laptop in a hotel bathroom in Bhurban, Pakistan (the john being the only place where he could plug in his modem). He was logged onto the Web, fiddling with a line of code for one of his company's main computers, when the epiphany came: "This works! The Internet has happened! I'm placeless...