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...humanities-ville. With one question of their own, my comrades and classmates in the sciences sadistically wreak their revenge. "Tell me," they entreat innocently, "what's postmodernism...

Author: By Jeremy N. Smith, | Title: Psst! Let's Talk Postmodernism | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

During solar maximums, space weather becomes stormy. The normally benign sun pounds the earth mercilessly with ultraviolet radiation, X rays and floods of charged particles, distorting the planet's protective magnetic field and inducing powerful electric currents that can wreak havoc not only with spacecraft but also with many aspects of terrestrial life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stormy Weather | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

Turn up Islamic terrorists anywhere in the world, and it's pretty much guaranteed that they'll be separated by no more than three degrees from Osama Bin Laden. But rather than proving that the Saudi superterrorist is a global mastermind able to wreak havoc anywhere in the world at the click of a Send button, this ubiquity says more about the diffuse nature of his operations. U.S. investigators were reported Thursday to have uncovered links between Bin Laden and the bomb plot foiled last December by the arrest of a number of Algerian militants on U.S. soil. The suspected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tight Is Bin Laden's Web of Terror? | 1/27/2000 | See Source »

...government saying 'Enough is enough.'" After all, just three months ago Thailand was embarrassed by a hostage drama at the Burmese embassy, and ended up granting a group allied with God's Army safe passage after negotiating an end to the crisis. If the pint-sized terrorists plan to wreak havoc, Thailand wants to make sure they don't do it on the Thai side of the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just What's With These Teenybopper Terrorists? | 1/25/2000 | See Source »

...readiness in other parts of the world. The Pentagon's efforts to ensure safety in the Russian nuclear arsenal were especially welcome. The efforts of the government and the private sector resulted in massive overhauls and scrutiny of existing computer systems to guarantee that the year 2000 would not wreak havoc upon the world...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Lauding the Y2K Hype | 1/12/2000 | See Source »

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