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...Sloan-Kettering caper and this summer's hit movie WarGames-the story of a young computer buff who nearly sets off a nuclear war when he accidentally gets into one of the Defense Department's most sensitive machines-have focused attention on a serious question: How to safeguard information stored inside computers? The potential for fraud is awesome. The American banking system alone moves more than $400 billion between computers every day. Corporate data banks hold consumer records and business plans worth untold billions. Military computers contain secrets that, if stolen, could threaten U.S. security. Many of these...
Next we see the family's progress through the obstacle course of media celebration. Delilah is an overeager guest on The Dating Game, Bill poses in bed for Esquire, and Lance poses in the buff for Screw. It is like watching a Woody Allen parody of Andy Warhol's too familiar conceit that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes...
...admitted baseball buff also concluded that Blacks are over-represented at both ends of the salary spectrum but start out making less than comparable white players. Discrimination affects mediocre Block pros the most, Mendonca argues...
...admitted baseball buff also concluded that Blacks are over-represented at both ends of the salary spectrum but start out making less than comparable white players. Discrimination affects mediocre Block pros the most, Mendonca argues...
...year and a half, Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield, history buff and former professor, urged Ronald Reagan to sit down with presidential biographers to talk about preserving the record of his White House years. Last week on Valentine's night the minisummit was held around the Hatfield dining-room table in Georgetown. Four noted biographers, the Librarian of Congress and their wives spooned homemade strawberry ice cream and counseled Reagan to cling to every scrap of evidence for history's sake...