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Worried about the safety of its scientists, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to pull the plug on two FBI World Wide Web pages on the Unabomber and the Oklahoma City bombing, according to a memo circulated between NASA and FBI officials and obtained by TIME. NASA runs the computer server used by the FBI to post and gather information on the two cases. But effective June 30, the memo says, NASA will withdraw its Internet support. NASA scientists, it adds, have "concerns about their vulnerability" if the space agency continues to sponsor the project. A NASA official involved...
...sometimes in the living room of her tiny cottage apartment in Coral Gables, Florida. Or it was on the tiled floor at the foot of her bed. It was anywhere, really, that the 23-year-old writer could sprawl with her laptop computer, reach a telephone jack and plug into the Internet...
...album gets off too a fast and strong start with the Mephiskapheles' catchy little ditty "Doomsday." The next song, "Too Stoopid," by Mustard Plug is one of the funniest songs on the album. With a chorus of "I wanna love you but you're too damn stoopid/ I wanna love you but you're just plain dumb," it is clear that Mustard Plug is a band that unlike so many bands does not take themselves too seriously and enjoys making fun music...
...sort that has enveloped Algeria (pop. 30 million) ever since the secular regime, widely discredited for its corruption and incompetence, embarked on an ill-fated attempt at reform in 1989. After the government reluctantly agreed to the first free elections in 29 years of independence, army generals pulled the plug when the F.I.S. won a plurality in the first round of voting. The generals installed a puppet civilian government rather than allow a second-round electoral victory for the fundamentalists, whose draconian vision of an Islamic republic had capitalized on the anger and discontent of millions of the young, poor...
...stop at a ``concierge's desk'' in the lobby to pick up laptop computers and portable phones, which can be programmed with any employee's extension. The workers then head for any one of a dozen or so living room-like settings in a large, red-carpeted open area, plug into nearby modem jacks and get cracking. For the occasional meetings of working groups, several ``strategic business units'' (conference rooms) have been set aside, but they are practically the only enclosed spaces...