Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...door and stay inside," he says. Other officers gathered up tourists and shoved them into whatever offices they could, telling them to stay put as they tried to restore order and determine whether Weston was acting alone. The building was sealed, and officers began a room-to-room search, blocking stairways and elevators. When they had determined that this was not a coup, not a conspiracy, but rather another loner with a gun, they finally let people leave, filing back out into the sunshine, past the ambulances and fire trucks and microphones, while the FBI, Secret Service...
Nobody likes being accosted by a clipboard-carrying activist, however noble the cause. But now you can weigh in on an issue in peace. A visit to www.e-thepeople.com (it launches Aug. 1) lets you search by topic for a petition you might want to sign, start your own petition or send a letter to almost any official, from a local parks commissioner to a U.S. Senator. Not sure to whom to vent? Search for the right recipient; if that office doesn't have an e-mail address, your message is faxed. Afraid of spam? Don't be: your e-mail...
Talk about expensive addresses: According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Compaq Computer Corp., owners of the Alta Vista search engine, paid a San Jose, Calif., business owner $3.35 million for the rights to the domain name www.altavista.com...
Speculating in domain names is not new: Enterprising individuals bought hundreds of Internet addresses such as unitedairlines.com and held them for ransom from their namesakes. (In 1996 a court ruled against registering copyrighted names.) But Marshall had his fair and square -- the Alta Vista search engine wasn't launched until November 1995, and was first registered under the name www.altavista.digital.com. (Why they picked a name that was already taken is inexplicable.) However, having a search engine's traffic mistakenly piling into your site daily isn't necessarily desirable, especially next to $3.5 million, and Marshall finally settled...
...from one place to another is to walk. If you are starving, it can take days or weeks to stagger to one of the dozen feeding centers run by international aid agencies. That is what thousands of stick-figured Sudanese are doing right now: trekking desperately in search of food, tottering, often falling into the dust to die, sometimes within sight of their goal. This time it is not only emaciated mothers with their hollow-cheeked children but skeletal men as well, not just in the war-ravaged south but also in the north. Across the pitiless expanse of Sudan...