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...Macworld Expo in Boston, the wheelchair-bound author of "A Brief History of Time" mused that computer viruses meet all the definitions of life, except for the fact that they have no metabolism. Instead, Hawking said, they're parasites that feed off the metabolisms of the host computers they destroy: "I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOW LOOK WHAT YOU DID | 8/2/1994 | See Source »

...delivered. Several lawmakers want a more radical approach: ousting Runyon. Maryland Representative Albert Wynn alleges that under Runyon, skilled postal workers have been dismissed to save money and African-American employees have been fired at a disproportionate rate. Says Wynn: "We can no longer allow Runyon to continue to destroy the second largest agency in the Federal Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Please, Mr. Postman! | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...Soviet Union is gone. The arms race between us is over. The U.S. and Russia are not even aiming missiles at each other. They are aimed at sea, so that even an accidental launch would destroy only fish. The coming threat emanates from elsewhere, from small, determined outlaw states such as North Korea, Iran and Iraq. And before that threat we are helpless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time for a Little Panic | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

This new influence, along with the instability of the "[Ross] Perot Phenomenon" has the "capability to destroy the Republican party altogether...

Author: By E. F. Mulkerin, | Title: Ellis Says 1994 Races Benchmark for Parties | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

...example, Wasinger calls the pro-choice movement "a culture of death that seeks to destroy life at every conceivable opportunity...nothing less than the ideological descendants of the pro-slavery people...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll | Title: In-Your-Face and On the Right | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

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