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...Some are ethical: Is it a war crime to crash another country's stock market? More perilous are the security concerns for the U.S., where a tyrant with inexpensive technology could unplug NASDAQ or terrorist hackers could disrupt an airport tower. Giddy excitement over infowar may be shaken by an electronic Pearl Harbor. Last year the government's Joint Security Commission called U.S. vulnerability to infowar "the major security challenge of this decade and possibly the next century...
This summer on Wall Street has certainly shattered my belief about equality in one field. My confidence that the professional world has turned the corner has been shaken. It makes me wonder about the rest of society and country and whether this summer or the rest of my experiences were the anomaly...
...above his waist." Noble, who had one foot in the quicksand-like bog himself, managed after a 10-minute struggle to extricate Bush with the help of Secret Service man Ed Flynn. "It was a hard pull," says Noble, placing blame on the bog, not the slender ex-President. Shaken but undeterred, Bush slipped on new trousers, borrowed socks and pressed on with the day's fishing...
...parks and monuments close before they are sold to private investors? Americans should stand up for their public lands and for the right to enjoy them. The value of these lands was encapsulated by John Muir in Our National Parks when he wrote, ''Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, overcivilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers but as fountains of life.'' SHERI A. MCDONIEL Dubuque, Iowa aol: SAMcDoniel
...consumers," declares Gary Arlen, a telecommunications consultant in Bethesda, Maryland. "Cable rates will rise in the short term before there's rate relief from competition." Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey, the ranking Democrat on the House Telecommunications Subcommittee concurs: "Consumers will wind up tipped upside down, with money shaken out of their pockets to subsidize the deregulatory dreams of the largest monopolies in the country. The fiber-optic barons are in control...