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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...virus that wreaked havoc on e-mail systems around the world, from the Pentagon to the British Parliament, and caused as much as $15 billion in damage. The skinny 23-year-old de Guzman came out of hiding last week for a press conference at which he came close to admitting responsibility for the Love Bug onslaught. Did he unleash the virus? "It is possible," admitted de Guzman, who sported dark glasses and covered his face with a handkerchief. If he did it, he insisted, it was as a result of "youthful exuberance...
...hour show includes graphic scenes of his lymph-node surgery ("There's an extreme close-up of my intestines being taken out") tempered with Green's usual edgy humor ("When you talk about removing something like that from your body, there's always room for laughs"). Now 20 lbs. lighter and just off pain killers, Green hopes the show will raise awareness of testicular cancer, which strikes mostly young men and has about a 96% recovery rate if treated early...
...soldiers are targeted by enemy Scuds during the conflict, martial lightning bolts--actually oxygen-iodine lasers--will blow the missiles from the sky before they ever get close to their targets. The Air Force wants to outfit a fleet of 747s with lasers. These "Warbirds" could explode enemy missiles shortly after launch, well before they could unleash their batches of warheads on American soldiers or local civilians. Computers on the plane will bend the laser's "rubber mirror" hundreds of times a second to keep the beam fixed on the missile's skin for the three to five seconds needed...
...socialism signifies a political and economic system in which the government controls a large part of the economy and redistributes wealth to produce social equality, then I think it is safe to say the likelihood of its making a comeback anytime in the next generation is close to zero. But the egalitarian political impulse to constrain the power of the wealthy in the interests of the weak and marginal remains strong and is already making a comeback. There are good reasons for thinking this impulse will not lead to new radical groups' achieving political power and implementing a coherent political...
...factor at work as well: globalization, along with the information-technology revolution that underpins it. A country that decides to opt for a heavy-handed, government-controlled economy will find itself falling further and further behind countries that are economically freer. Formerly, it was possible for socialist countries to close themselves off from the rest of the world, content that they had achieved social justice even if their economies appeared to be stagnating. But with more information, your citizens simply know too much about the living standards, culture and alternative approaches of other societies. Since the world is not likely...