Word: controller
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Over a week ago, the Board of Overseers approved the Harvard Corporation's decision to add a black member to its ranks for the first time. Since 1650, when the Corporation began, certain types of people have tended to control its very definite and extensive power. They've been white. They've been wealthy. And until recently, they've been...
...million miles from the earth, NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft suddenly found itself under assault. Late in January, the tiny, instrument-packed spacecraft was buffeted by an exceptionally powerful burst of particles spewed out by the sun. In the space-environment control room at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) headquarters in Boulder, Colo., alarms sounded. "All of a sudden, a blast wave of solar wind showed up at the ACE spacecraft," says NOAA's Joe Hirman, "as dense as any we've seen, and, bam, 30 minutes later the earth's magnetic field got hit hard...
Since the last maximum, the number of satellites in orbit has increased sixfold, to more than 600. They are essential for everything from telephone service and air-traffic control to you-name-it.com connections, pay-at-the-pump credit-card service and hundreds of other information-age conveniences. Yet for reasons of economy, or just plain indifference, few of these spacecraft are properly shielded...
...this problem? Go to your Start button and select Settings, then Control Panel, then Internet Options. Next, select the Programs tab and hit the button that says RESET WEB SETTINGS. That should restore your PC to its previous defaults. Gee, that was simple, wasn...
...merger is the largest Y2K threat yet to emerge. This so-called legal consolidation taking place right before our eyes illustrates just how arrogant corporate America has become in its quest to control communication to all. BRAD HUNT Crested Butte, Colo...