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Mostly from Congress, via an emergency appropriation, White House officials predict. But selling the idea of new foreign aid is the political equivalent of root canal. Luckily, however, an alternative exists, a reallocation of the $15 billion the U.S. sends abroad each year -- funds still distributed according to a formula established when the old world order flourished...
...adviser, "and the argument's going to be made again now that we want new money for Yeltsin. The question is whether we'll have the guts to make the case ourselves or whether we'll piggyback on Congress" -- assuming, of course, that Congress prefers the third rail to root canal...
Most of these young hackers are explorers. They believe strongly in freedom of information. Everything should be known by everyone--or at least by those few both skillful and determined enough to root...
Complete power over every file and every user is held by anyone with the root password. My friends at MIT deem Harvard's security too pathetic to be worth a challenge...
...would think they were bluffing if it weren't for the fact that one had "become root" (for just long enough to flaunt it to the director of computing) on MIT's Athena. Unlike our own wimpy system, Athena is one of the most powerful university networks in the world--and one of the best defended...