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...backed revoking the Brady Bill and was so enthusiastic in foiling the government's attempts to regulate the distribution of semi-automatic and automatic weapons, Heston toed the party line artfully enough to make even the most sanguine gun advocate proud. When confronted with statistics displaying the wide-spread violence and the staggering number of juvenile deaths caused every year by the mismanagement of fire arms, he adopted the Disraeli defense, dismissing statistics as just another sort of lie. In short, Moses was arguing that automatic weapons were no more dangerous than Barbie Dolls and that they should...
Even if food quality has remained much the same over the past century (some students may argue that it is literally the same food), the administration of Harvard's Dining Services has evolved from a student-run entrepreneurial system to the University-wide organization that it is today...
Russian military officers stared wide-eyed at the glowing image on their radar screens: an incoming missile on course to hit Moscow in 15 minutes. They were tracking a rocket about the size of a U.S. submarine-launched Trident that seemed to be streaking in from the Norwegian Sea. There had been no particular tension between Russia and the U.S. on Jan. 25, 1995. Still, the officers knew that if this were a surprise attack, the first American missile to be fired would probably be from a submarine, aimed to detonate over Russia and generate an electromagnetic storm that would...
...might think that someone who invented a giant electronic brain for Planet Earth would have a pretty impressive brain of his own. And Tim Berners-Lee, 41, the creator of the World Wide Web, no doubt does. But his brain also has one shortcoming, and, by his own account, this neural glitch may have been the key to the Web's inception...
Berners-Lee is the unsung--or at least undersung--hero of the information age. Even by some of the less breathless accounts, the World Wide Web could prove as important as the printing press. That would make Berners-Lee comparable to, well, Gutenberg, more or less. Yet so far, most of the wealth and fame emanating from the Web have gone to people other than him. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, drives a Mercedes-Benz and has graced the cover of several major magazines. Berners-Lee has graced the cover of none, and he drives a 13-year...