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...school is a yellowish-tan building behind a fence, directly across the street from the apartment complex where Khalilah has lived with her grandmother for as long as she can remember. "Harbor View Apartments: Luxury Waterfront Apartments," says a sign. The buildings, which have their own swimming pool and tennis courts, look out across the Old Harbor at smokestacks in South Boston. Across the water, off to the left of the factories, rises Boston's downtown skyline, silver, clean and far away...
Hacking was popularized in the movie "War Games." It took a young high school student nothing more tan a 300-baud modem and a computer less powerful than some calculators to bring the would to the brink of nuclear war. Prior to this he had changed his grades form borderline passing to honor roll. This was an exploit everyone could relate...
...WASN'T NEARLY ENOUGH TO MAKE CROPS GROW or give anyone a Saint-Tropez tan, but for the first time ever, there was sunlight in the middle of the night. This seemingly divine miracle was actually the product of a thin, 65-ft. plastic mirror mounted on the unmanned Russian spacecraft Progress, which, from its 225-mile-high perch, reflected light on a sleeping Europe. The umbrella-like mirror, called Banner, did not quite turn night into day, but it did project a weak 2 1/2-mile-wide beam that danced across the Continent for six minutes. A French observer described...
...THAT WITNESSES REMEMBER IS A YOUNG MAN OF medium build with dark hair who wore a tan jacket -- and carried a semiautomatic rifle. He emerged from a brown compact car as commuters waited during an otherwise perfect, sunlit Monday-morning rush hour to turn left into the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Firing in bursts at close range, the man walked up the line of cars, then down, killing two CIA employees and wounding three others. In the chaos of shattered glass, screams and blood, he returned to his car and drove away. Was it a calculated...
Stranger of approached by numerous corrupt types who want to use their tainted money to buy his idea. Among them is reporter Jim Jettison (Director Patrick Tan), who seeks to sell papers by uncovering "sex secrets of the past--where did the Venus de Milo have her hands before she lost her arms...