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That same reticence may keep this most English of writers in London on Oscar night. "I'm not a big traveler," he says. "You know, when the poet Philip Larkin was asked if he'd like to go to Australia, he said, 'I wouldn't mind, if I could come back the same afternoon!'" For George III or the Lady in the Van or Alan Bennett, there's no place like home. It's where one has a modest function...
...Pretty Good Privacy) is a popular public-key encryption system originally developed by computer nerd-turned-political activist Philip Zimmermann. Check it out on the World Wide Web at http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html for information on creating your own keys...
...certified the suit, filed by a smoker's widow and three current smokers in New Orleans, as a class action, which means that anyone in the country who has failed to quit despite a doctor's warning that smoking is unhealthy may join the suit. Defendants include American Tobacco, Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard and Liggett. R.J. Reynolds responded that the judge's decision violated the rules governing class action lawsuits and would place "an unwieldy burden" on the courts. But John Banzhaf, executive director of the national anti-smoking organization Action on Smoking and Health, toldTIME law reporter Andrea...
...operating systems, which run some 80 percent of all personal computers. "You have this really bizarre scenario in which the trust-busters have gone to bed with the trust to protect themselves from a maverick judge who is calling it the way it really is," says TIME technology editor Philip Elmer-Dewitt...
...long-awaited U.S. plan forsees a privately-funded, market-driven "Global Information Infrastructure" with uniform security and access policies. Gore will push for telecommunications reforms to permit competition among telephone and cable television companies and open the network to all firms and individuals, regardless of income. TIME technology editor Philip Elmer-Dewitt says it is ironic that Gore wants other nations to deregulate "before we've gotten our house in order." Internet expert David Farber, a University of Pennsylvania professor, told TIME Daily that a Congressional proposal to make network operators liable for illegal information such as pornography that...