Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...press, though, wasn't biting. Soon the media wave will wash over, and Lebed and his friend will be left in anonymity again. Let's hope they have learned something...
...fellow 19-year-old who he is sure likes him for him and not for Napster. He won't give her name, and most of his co-workers don't even know about her. "When I'm around her," Fanning says, "I don't have to think about the press or about Napster...
Since the lawsuit began, Napster has become enveloped in something of a siege mentality, an us-vs.-them attitude toward the record labels and the press that has forced Fanning to retreat even farther into his shell. He has to monitor carefully what he says to whom and even what clothes he wears. "The cdc [the Cult of the Dead Cow, a hacker collective] guys sent me a shirt, and the lawyers told me I shouldn't wear it," he says. "It's just so tightly controlled...
...information." That's what makes the stock go up, but it also makes you easier to find. Lebed may have got away with his schemes for a year, but others have been identified within days. In the Emulex case in August, Jakob was targeted within hours of his phony press release. Hoke, an employee at PairGain Technologies, was nabbed just a week after his bogus release declared that PairGain was about to be bought...
...back-to-school time, and because all states now require proof of student immunization, the anti-vaccine forces are again in full cry. Warnings about the dangers of vaccination abound on the Internet, in the press and in the literature of alternative medicine. Not only are vaccinations unnecessary to ward off epidemics of infectious diseases, the critics charge, but they are also responsible for such scourges as AIDS, sudden-infant-death syndrome and autism...