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Almost three-fourths of the $1.6 billion would pay for military hardware and training, including 30 top-of-the-line Blackhawk helicopters. The rest would be economic and law-enforcement assistance, which White House officials have ordered U.S. aid agencies to pump into Colombia as fast as its government can absorb the dollars. All that money would be used to battle not only the drug traffickers but also the guerrillas who are aligned with them and who have waged a 35-year insurgency against the government. What's more, U.S. officials say privately that the $1.6 billion would be just...
...dead weight and found a winner. But when the Clintonites showed up for work, sleeves rolled up and ready to reverse years of trickle-down social policy, they received some bad news. In the post-cold war world, their new Wall Street buddies informed them, you couldn't pump government money into the economy and watch it spring to life because the bond market, punisher of fiscal indiscipline, would force up interest rates and slam its foot on the brake. Bill Clinton adapted; he cut spending and the deficit, thus handing over the economic reins to Alan Greenspan...
Since the last maximum, the number of satellites in orbit has increased sixfold, to more than 600. They are essential for everything from telephone service and air-traffic control to you-name-it.com connections, pay-at-the-pump credit-card service and hundreds of other information-age conveniences. Yet for reasons of economy, or just plain indifference, few of these spacecraft are properly shielded...
...shouldn't expect a sudden influx of super-secure sites. "There are ways to keep these attacks from happening, but few companies implement them. Security tends to take a backseat to aesthetics and ease of service at the site," McClure says. And while Net businesses may be tempted to pump their time and money into the more visible aspects of a site, the current threat to their bottom line may force them to rethink their priorities. After all, seeing a multibillion-dollar web site brought to its knees by a group of not-so-bright pranksters doesn't inspire...
...Harvard administrators are not ready to proclaim success yet. Fearing that this momentum could quickly be lost, the University has new programs in the works to pump additional money and education into the community...