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...wanted to stay in, and in no time, Susan noticed, was scanning the real estate ads in the local paper. Suddenly he looked up with a gleam in his eye. "Look at this," he told Susan. "Twelve hundred acres in Marion County for less than $100 an acre." It struck him as an amazingly good deal. "Is there any land in America that could be worth less than $100 an acre?" They bought the land within a week, sight unseen...
...This is clearly someone who's got too much time on his hands," says hacker Emmanuel Goldstein, publisher of 2600 magazine, who got hit twice (in his letters and articles mailboxes) and would have been struck a third time if the perpetrator hadn't misspelled his name. Goldstein wrote a simple program that canceled most of his subscriptions. "It's like stepping in dog droppings," he says. "You change your shoes and get on with your...
Last week a federal appeals court moved to provide that aid. In a groundbreaking decision, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Washington State's prohibition of doctor-assisted suicide. Writing for the majority in the 8-to-3 decision, Judge Stephen Reinhardt said, "There is a constitutionally protected liberty interest in determining the time and manner of one's own death" that can outweigh the state's interest in preserving life. Washington's law, ruled the court, violates the right of mentally competent, terminally ill adults to choose "a dignified and humane death...
Evan M. Schwartzfarb '96 says he was particularly struck by the "random" aspect of the process. "One company will interview you, and their major competitor won't and there doesn't seem to be any reason...
...ambition and the desire for social acceptance, between career aspirations and spousal responsibilities, between professional commitments and maternal obligations. Let us not be discouraged by the challenge of finding the right formula, but let us look forward instead to the fulfilling rewards we will reap when this balance is struck...