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Frank M. Steen, the director of Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS), said he has discussed the prospect of banning Napster with the general counsel's office. If the University decides to block the service, Steen said it could be shut down "very fast"--perhaps within 24 hours...
...that Milosevic, like other autocrats, is not above creating bloody diversions if he feels his grip on power is threatened--as it may be by unexpected results in upcoming elections. And while independent-leaning Montenegrins, many of whom fought for Milosevic in earlier Balkan wars, do not savor the prospect of another battle, there is little love lost for a President whose policies have wrecked the economy and turned their homeland into a pariah state. One thing is clear: if there is a war in this tiny republic, it will be cataclysmic. For the West, intervention would be perilous...
...Knight Inlet in western Canada, guests may visit the home village of guide Nick Chowdhury, a member of the Tanakteuk Band. Across the country in a very different landscape, Cree guides lead animal lovers in Polar Bear Provincial Park. Traveling with Free Spirit Air Adventures www.elmhirst.com) Alice Piacentini of Prospect, Ohio, flew with her husband, four children ranging then from six to 14, and her parents-in-law to the 9,100-sq.-mi. park in northern Ontario. While everyone in the family was thrilled by the bears, they were even more affected by Sam Hunter, their Cree guide...
...since the Gulf War has America seen oil prices of $35 dollars a barrel, last week's high. And the prospect of stiff prices for heating oil this winter is already giving us a chill. Not surprisingly, share prices for the big three oil companies, ExxonMobil, BP Amoco, and Royal Dutch, have risen accordingly. If you missed Big Oil's runup, consider Not So Big Oil: companies such as Conoco and USX Marathon have been relatively ignored by investors, but they're turning analysts' heads. "These are companies whose profits have exploded while their share prices remain dormant," says...
...video games, just as teens are barred from NC-17 films. This would allow record labels and video-game makers to release whatever they please, and adults to buy it and even pass it on to their kids if they thought that was O.K. But that's a prospect that makes entertainment executives nervous, since the market for the raunchiest and most belligerent pop culture is made up largely of teenage boys. Deprived of that market, Eminem would have to make the case for himself as an artist among adults, where - who knows? - maybe he could make...