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During the summer before my eighth grade year, rumors swirled around Belmont that a 6'5" youngster named Asa Palmer was coming. The rumor mill said that Asa had a lineage any basketball coach would salivate over--a brother who was a freshman at Duke and a brother who was a 7'1" center for the Utah Jazz...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Memories of a High School Basketball Power | 12/16/1994 | See Source »

...rumor mill turned out to be right. Asa was six-five and did have one brother at Duke and one in the NBA. He was a pretty good basketball player, a little uncoordinated nonetheless, but clearly he had potential...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Memories of a High School Basketball Power | 12/16/1994 | See Source »

First, some background. The rumor has several variations, but the most common elements of the story are that the virus has "unparalleled destructive capability" and that it was created by a user on America Online...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Times | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

...catch about "Good Times" is that the e-mail is supposed to infect your system immediately upon being read. Some versions of the rumor claim that once infected, your computer's hard drive will be corrupted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Times | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

Other versions of the rumor are more outlandish, claiming that an infected machine will be sent into an "nth-complexity infinite binary loop" which is supposed to be so complex that the computer's central processing unit (CPU) will be "severely damaged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Times | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

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