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To prevent this new kind of criminal activity, computer users and manufacturers are pushing for touch new laws against "illegal entry," and "illegal manipulation of data." "To a great extent, if there are laws that have teeth in them, they can discourage a lot of the [criminal] actions we're...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Data of Tap | 11/15/1984 | See Source »

The title is ironic: the unwanted plant is the author. All his life, Conrad Detrez, 48, has been inflamed by credos and causes. The Belgian youth became an ardent mystic and prepared for the monastic life at the Roman Catholic University of Louvain in the 1950s. A few years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conflagrations | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Though the new technologies have raised all sorts of politically explosive ethical questions, the demand for them is rapidly growing. Reason: infertility, which now affects one in six American couples, is on the rise (see box page 50). According to a study by the National Center for Health Statistics, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Origins of Life | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

The prospective sale of such in-house information upsets some firms. Said Robert Stovall, director of investment policy for the Wall Street firm Dean Witter Reynolds, whose directory will probably be offered: "It's an invitation to subject our employees to unwanted solicitations. The book wasn't prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communications: Sorry, Right Number | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

The rather simplistic argument is meant to complement Greer's central claim; that all unwanted children are a tragedy, but that we in the West have far more than they in the East. Therefore, who are we to tell them they must curb their birthrate? We are more responsible for...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Be Fruitful and Multiply | 7/6/1984 | See Source »

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