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With a furtive eye on the clock, I scan through my mail index quickly, so as not to be more than ten minutes late to my next class. Amid the usual assortment of friendly "letters" I notice an unfamiliar name, a certain Debbie Mayer from the University of Wisconsin. After a brief description of her life, she asks, "Write back if you want to. It would be cool to have an e-mail...
Three days later, when the FBI completed a more detailed composite sketch of the suspect, French had two graphics experts scan the drawing and a photo of Polly into a computer. By then, Magid had contacted several computer networks, among them Internet, which has a worldwide clientele of 20 million users. Those services quickly transmitted the images to 250 computer bulletin boards. "This is like a good virus: it proliferated," says Magid...
...that definition? Those who can sign a credit-card receipt but are incapable of writing a letter when they think their bill is wrong; those who can pay the correct change at the supermarket but have difficulty calculating the difference between regular and sale prices; those who can scan a newspaper story but cannot paraphrase its contents...
...price of an America Online subscription ($9.95 a month plus $3.50 an hour after the first five hours each month; phone 1-800-827-6364, extension 7758), computer users will receive the text of each new issue by 4 p.m. Sunday. Readers can browse through the magazine or scan back issues starting with the one published two weeks...
...switching the five-digit codes used to identify the items it sells. Only the willingness of two of the firm's employees to blow the whistle alerted officials to the allegations. Meanwhile many insurance companies that formerly did not closely scrutinize claims have become more vigilant. Using computers, they scan for such warning signs of fraud as services performed on weekends and holidays and visits to doctors far from a claimant's home...