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Aaron Lansky glances at the forest of jammed bookshelves surrounding him: "The word for it is hemshekh -- a continuity. This is from the world Hitler tried to destroy." Lansky, the executive director of the National Yiddish Book Center, is standing in the center's annex in Holyoke, Mass. There, on the vast, hangarlike floor of a renovated paper factory, are stored about 700,000 of the 900,000 Yiddish books that the center has collected...
...virus is a computer program hidden within another piece of software that infects any computer exposed to the software. While some computer viruses have been known to destroy information and valuable files on smaller computer networks, associates of Morris have said that his was simply intended to move from one computer to the next without causing any damage...
...enraged at the drawings. In early 1989 Mihaesco's 79-year-old father Nicolae, who lives in Bucharest, was sacked from his job, isolated from his friends and ordered to rein in his "seditious" son. "I'm crushed if you go on," Nicolae told Eugene by telephone. "They will destroy me, destroy your mother." Grasping for a solution, the artist screamed at his father -- and the eavesdropping police -- "Don't tell me what to do. I disinherit you!" Children do not disinherit parents; this artist is crazy. Or so Mihaesco hoped the Securitate would think. Soon after, his father...
...made a believer out of John Boyles, chief of the Wild Horses and Burros division of BLM. "The situation ((at Mustang Meadows)) is about as close to natural as you can get," says Boyles. "As long as Congress says we can't destroy healthy excess animals, the sanctuary gives us the least-cost alternative to keeping the horses we can't place in private homes." BLM has awarded a contract for a second sanctuary in Oklahoma...
...garrisons on the other side become unthreatening? Irving Kristol and Tom Bethell have been urging for years that the U.S. wind down NATO. The tradition of American noninterventionism is a long one (we like pedigrees for our prejudices). America should not "go abroad in search of monsters to destroy," as John Quincy Adams put it. "She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." At the same time, our present forward position is the end product of an equally long thrust of American expansion, which was propelled...