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...called "firewalls" and other security devices that are set up to protect the world's corporations from such an invasion. Appearing in Hong Kong Thursday afternoon local time, ILOVEYOU began spreading at the fastest rate of any virus to date. Its speediness results from its ability to trigger the recipient's e-mail program to send a copy of itself to everyone listed in the program's address book. This means a copy of the virus is quickly dispatched to listservs, client lists and internal mailing lists, enabling it to leap city, country and continent borders at incredible speed...
...protesters may not be able to stop the Navy from resuming its bombing exercises, but they're hoping the spectacle of federal agents dragging off passive resisters will make the political cost of removing them prohibitive to the Clinton administration. Local politicians are warning that arrests at Vieques will trigger protests in the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York, Florida and Chicago, and one warned that "this is going to be worse than Miami for the Clinton administration." Paging Vice President Gore...
...diversion dams were taken off a Sierra Nevada stream called Butte Creek, record numbers of spring-run Chinook salmon--listed by the U.S. as a threatened species--rushed past their ruins to spawn. If the spring-run Chinook ends up on the more serious endangered-species list, that will trigger more restrictions on diversions from its spawning rivers. So helping the spring-run by getting rid of a few dams could be worth billions to California's economy, which is hopelessly dependent on the manipulation of water...
...against himself: Al Gore the Plausible November Winner in a fight to the death against his evil twin, Al Gore the Truly Unbearable) scored one for Unbearable Al by turning the zoo shooting into a demagogue moment. (Considering the permissive Texas gun atmosphere, George W. Bush practically pulled the trigger on those kids himself! So Gore suggested...
...testimony before the Maryland legislature helped push through a new law that requires trigger locks and a firearms-safety course for all new handgun owners. When the measure was signed into law last week, President Clinton traveled to Annapolis to praise the Prices' efforts...