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...Serbs around Kozarac express little remorse for the countless Muslim homes they have destroyed and tens of thousands of lives they have shattered in "cleansing" northwestern Bosnia. Their main interest now is in improving their own living conditions in the territory they have taken. Serbian officials told a visiting Western delegation last week that if the Muslim government in Sarajevo wanted peace, it would first have to reopen the roads, railroads and air space and restore the telephone and electricity lines it has cut off. "If we don't have electricity, if we don't have fuel," said Milan Covacevic...
...royal family. Many have begun to wonder whether the investment is worth it. What is this younger generation coming to? And aren't there rather a lot of them? And what are they good for, besides embarrassing themselves, titillating us commoners and boosting the circulation of tabloids? A Sunday Express poll conducted just after the Fergie topless pictures hit the newsstands found that 61% of respondents thought the summer's dirt had caused "lasting damage to the image of the Royal Family." Only 42% believed Britain would have a monarchy 50 years from...
...same technology permits businesses and government agencies to replace rooms full of documents with stacks of computer disks. American Express converts all its paper receipts into digital form for printing and storage. Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield in New York City uses the process to make digital images of 250,000 claims a day. Even police departments are beginning to use the technology for storing mug shots and fingerprints. Digital-image management is already a $1.8 billion industry, and could grow to $11 billion in North America by 1996, according to BIS Strategic Decisions, a Massachusetts-based consulting firm...
...whose chorus rings with down-home gospel fervor. "Brothers wit their A.K.s and their 9-mms," Speech raps, "Need to learn how to correctly shoot them./ Save those rounds for a revolution./ Poor whites and blacks, bumrushing the system." Whether literally calling for violence or using a metaphor to express a desire for social upheaval, Speech and Arrested Development clearly believe their revolution is righteous...
Thinking Machines had sold its Connection Machine 5, described in trade publication as "a sleek black box with red blinking lights," to re- search institutions such as Los Alamos NationalLaboratory and Stanford University. The companyhas also been a pioneer in marketing its hugelypowerful computers to commercial customers such asAmerican Express and Dow Jones...