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News of Ethiopia's victory in Zalambessa was received with jubilation in the capital, Addis Ababa. Thousands of people gathered in the city's main square and cheered on truckloads of waving Ethiopian soldiers. At the office of the government representative, a computer screen saver read, ZALAMBESSA LIBERATED!! Chief spokeswoman Selome Taddesse popped open a bottle of Ethiopian Champagne as her staff danced to a popular song celebrating past Ethiopian victories. "I've been waiting for this day for two years," said Taddesse...
...black and white to him from the beginning." L. Lin Wood, an attorney for the Ramseys, says the new book supports his view that Thomas "developed a theory early on and then tried to shape the evidence and nonevidence to fit." Indeed, Thomas writes that the screen saver on one detective's computer scrolled continuously in bright letters: THE RAMSEYS ARE THE KILLAS...
...recently sat in on a troubled saver's discussions with Schwab investment specialist Terence McNamara in New York City. The client, whom I'll call Mr. Value, has had nearly all his assets in conservative stock funds for three years. In a recent 12-month run, he actually lost money. Tough stuff in a roaring bull market...
Maybe you'd like to try tracking down E.T. yourself? If you have a PC or Mac that sits idle at least a few hours a day, you can join the 1.7 million people who have downloaded SETI@home, a free screen saver (available at setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu that uses your computer's downtime to help sort through the reams of noisy static gathered by radio telescopes. The odds of pulling a Jodie Foster (who snared the elusive extraterrestrial signal in the 1997 sci-fi flick Contact) are a zillion to one. But if you fail--or even if you succeed--nobody...
...necessary to do because of the central needs of compliance and Y2K, but it has not been a time-saver. It has the potential to be a wonderful system, but we aren't there...