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...incensed women decided to go public on the general WELL -- if only to keep others from falling into Mr. X's trap. What ensued became "Topic 1290: Do You Know This Cyber-Scam-Artist?," publicly exposing Mr. X to the WELL's 8,000 members (among them, a high concentration of writers, journalists, musicians and Grateful Deadheads) and sparking a network-wide debate on the spoken and unspoken rules of electronic etiquette. Supporters of Lisa, Beth and Nancy sent their messages flying. "E-mail is the last refuge of a scoundrel," said one. But there were plenty of opponents...
...using this unique opportunity to respond to pent-up ecological concerns, particularly the needs of fish. Many of the dams up for relicensing will be required to take costly steps to help fish reach their spawning grounds and then return. That could mean ladders, lifts, pathways or "trap-and-truck" measures, in which truckloads of fish are ferried around the dam and released...
Some of the tracks do escape this trap. For "Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car," the Edge employs a scratchy metallic guitar groove with the reverb of Bono's vocals to obtain a psychedelic dance beat. This song about a friend's heroin addiction loses none of the artistic quality of the other songs, combining metallic pings and clanks with Bono's disembodied voice...
...total Serb troops in Bosnia at no more than 90,000 -- under his command, and controls about 400 sq. mi. of territory substantially "cleansed" of Muslims. The situation map behind his desk shows his lines extending like a pointed finger into Muslim territory. All that would be needed to trap the corps would be for the Muslims to cut through the 10-mile-wide base of the finger with an assault on Doboj. It is an uncomfortable position...
...Quite the contrary. It only irritates them. It is only natural, they think, that the former enemies of Russia would approve of Yeltsin, because he is the one who ruined the country. I am really concerned about a growth of anti-American feeling. You have fallen into this artificial trap out of a sheer lack of knowledge of Russia...