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...reside on the user's hard drive. All the site's designer would need to know is the location and code of a program on the drive. Such locations, unfortunately, are commonly standardized with operating systems' installation, and thus easily deduced. The bug could be a dose of publicity poison for Microsoft, by focusing computer users' fears about security onto both Internet Explorer and the operating systems the browser is so relentlessly paired with: Windows 95 and Windows NT. Microsoft officials said they were testing a solution for the problem and expected to have it quickly posted to the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clicker Beware | 3/4/1997 | See Source »

...that it might contain chemical weapons -- then covered up what it had known when Gulf War veterans began to complain of serious health problems. If confirmed, this would indicate that for the first time that negligence by the CIA and U.S. military was a factor in exposing veterans to poison gas during the Gulf War. The Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses has 60 days to examine the report, made public yesterday. While the Pentagon admitted last year that at least 20,000 troops may have been exposed to sarin, a highly toxic gas, the CIA has kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Investigates Possible Gulf War Cover-Up | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

...same standard as Guinier, he would be driven from office. Yet, Lott will probably escape from this scandal unscathed, perhaps without even being forced to mouth an insincere apology. The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was disbanded in the 1970s. But the legacy of white supremacy continues to poison out society and to infect national politics...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: A Lott of Racism | 2/5/1997 | See Source »

...Laertes in their respective chest wigs, he does it as if cut from the same cloth as "Flash Gordon." Throwing his rapier from the balcony like a javelin, Hamlet pins Claudius to his throne (note: poetic justice) and swings down on the chandelier in order to splash drops of poison into his mouth, all the while bellowing about his impending death, the stellar revenge he has enacted, and his chest hair. (Well, not really, but Hamlet's expression shows he's thinking about...

Author: By Whitney K. Bryant, | Title: Branagh AND THE BEAST | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

...Justices agreed to wrestle with the issue simply to concur with Reinhardt. Regardless of the outcome, nothing will likely change the minds of doctors, a majority of whom oppose it. They, after all, have pledged to follow Hippocrates, who nearly 2,400 years ago said: "I will not give poison to anyone, though asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Court Skeptical About Assisted Suicide | 1/8/1997 | See Source »

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