Word: warning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spot. Presumably similar atrocities took place elsewhere. At least 107 student leaders sought temporary asylum in southern Thailand. Others went underground and hinted at a more violent form of opposition. Said Min Ko Naing, a student leader in Rangoon: "We have stopped using our mouths to protest, and warn the group that calls itself the government to seek their last meal...
...country's most imminent threat is waterborne epidemics. Thousands of flood victims are suffering from severe diarrhea. Health officials warn that widespread malaria, spawned by stagnant pools of floodwater, may be next. A World Health Organization epidemiologist predicts that even if epidemic conditions are kept under control, 4,000 children will probably die from gastrointestinal diseases...
...most experts warn that the worst is yet to come. "The viruses we've seen so far are child's play," says Donn Parker, a computer-crime expert at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif. Parker fears that the same viruses that are inconveniencing personal-computer users today could, through the myriad links and entry points that connect large networks, eventually threaten the country's most vital computer systems. Agrees Harold Highland, editor of Computers & Security magazine: "We ain't seen nothing...
...panic." Others are more of a nuisance, causing temporary malfunctions or making it difficult to run isolated programs. But some seem bent on destroying valuable data. "Your worst fear has come true," wrote a computer buff in a report he posted on an electronic bulletin board to warn other users about a new Macintosh virus. "Don't share disks. Don't copy software. Don't let anyone touch your machine. Just...
Federal officials warn homeowners that the radon threat is worse than was previously thought, and urge immediate testing...