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...nights ago, for probably the 40th time this year, I was approached by a homeless person seeking alms. And, for the 40th time this year, I was assailed by guilt and doubt about what...

Author: By Suk Han, | Title: The Homeless and Our Guilt | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

...traced to a rapidly multiplying program that was consuming computer memory. This program carried something else as well. Within its instructional code was a "time bomb" linked to each computer's internal clock and set to go off on the second Friday in May -- Friday the 13th, the 40th anniversary of the State of Israel. Any machine still infected on that date would suffer the instant loss of all its files. Fortunately, the virus was eradicated well before May 13, and the day passed without incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Invasion of the Data Snatchers | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...freshmen are also expected to add to the Crimson's arsenal. Kim Cooper, who was ranked third in the East and 40th nationally in the 16-and-under category last year, will get off to a late start this year due to a severe tendonitis problem in her right elbow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Teams Open Fall Offensives | 9/16/1988 | See Source »

...single from the album, Starting Over. And he was talking to reporters, telling interviewers about his life as a househusband, baking bread and caring for his and Yoko's young son Sean. That he should be cut down at the beginning of this new flowering, two months after his 40th birthday, just when he was starting over, seemed an intolerable irony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Challenging The Myth Machine: THE LIVES OF JOHN LENNON | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...40TH ANNUAL PRIME-TIME EMMY AWARDS (Fox, Aug. 28, 8 p.m. EDT). L.A. Law leads in the nominations as the TV community gathers once again to recognize its best and listen to windy thank-yous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Aug. 22, 1988 | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

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