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Harvard would not face Miami until the championship match on Sunday, but until then, Columbia appears to be the first competitor on tap for the Crimson players...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Awaits Foe in NCAA Regional Today | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

...tap these benefits, China has embarked on a series of nine "golden projects" that will shotgun state-of-the-art technology into every field from health care to finance. By 2010 hundreds of millions of Chinese will be wired to the Golden Bridge financial network, carrying Golden Card smart cards and automatically forking over a chunk of their salaries to the government via a microchip-enabled Golden Tax. Says Bryan Nelson, Microsoft's commanding general in the region: "China is going to be the ultimate proof of all that the Internet can do. And the amazing thing is, the Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Gets Wired | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

Indeed, according to Page, many of the songs on Walking into Clarksdale were recorded in "one or two" takes. The pair were going for spontaneity, and the effort paid off. Despite the weight of their history--bands like Pearl Jam have borrowed from them, movies like This Is Spinal Tap have parodied them--their Walking into Clarksdale is a relatively loose-limbed, unencumbered affair. There are no sprawling Stairway to Heaven-type pieces here, only songs that are for the most part relatively modest and direct. This isn't hard rock, but it is solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stairway To Middle Age | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...April 29 court hearing into the Jonesboro massacre. For now, though, Gretchen is thinking about smaller matters. Her son is "thin, sallow and dehydrated, with very dry, cracked lips," she says. "I begged him to drink." But Mitch, she says, is not taken with the prison's beverage selection: tap water, milk and, on a good day, Kool-Aid. He is terrified and confused, she says, able to provide few clues to his mother to explain the horror that he and Drew Golden are accused of inflicting on the Arkansas community. Last week Jonesboro was still deep in mourning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother of The Accused | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...What this means is that cell phone rustlers can now scan the airwaves, remotely tap into a call and even duplicate the cell phone's digital ID at will. As Marc Briceno, who organized the code-cracking, puts it: "We can clone the phones." What was the crypto technology's fatal weakness? Too much secrecy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clone for the Holidays | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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