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...Friday's Usenet post from "Mr. Nothing" (aka Dan Brumleve). By Monday, it had mutated into a full-blown security crisis for Netscape and everyone who owns its browsers. As Brumleve demonstrates on his web page, it is possible to download a short, 30-line javascript program that will snatch information from a Netscape user's hard drive. Specifically, the flaw allows web sites to scan your cache without setting a cookie -- in other words, make off with a list of all those places, naughty and nice, where you've been surfing...
With Sanders and Herman Moore on the field, the Lions don't need Johnny Unitas under center to be effective, just someone who is effective, and won't single-handedly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, as Mitchell has done with alarming frequency...
...prove it can deliver. Most of bin Laden's hidden finances have been impossible to find. Pentagon officials admit they're not flush with big fat targets in bin Laden's network, which is a collection of highly mobile terror cells with no central headquarters. Sending in commandos to snatch him in Afghanistan would be too bloody an operation, and the country's ruling Taliban is so far in no mood to turn him over...
...rocky soil is to farming. "We see them as occupiers," a local Serbian Orthodox priest says of the NATO troops in the region. Also convenient for Karadzic is the region's extended, porous border with Serbia and Montenegro that provides ample escape routes in case of a snatch attempt. Most important, the entire region is in the French sector of NATO operations in Bosnia. Statistically, that is the safest place to be: of the 12 indicted war criminals detained by NATO troops, only one was taken in the French zone...
...real disappointment of the weekend came the following morning, when Villanova handed Harvard a 12-10 loss, rallying from behind to snatch away the win after the Crimson led most...