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...software that wouldn't work. The family owns two late-model computers, IBM clones, so that both Nick, 14, and Zachary, 11, will always have a machine for marauding and avenging. A few weeks ago, their father bought them the CD-ROM game Front Page Sports Baseball '94, by Sierra Online. The game, which the boys opened Christmas Eve, couldn't be installed properly. Nick says he called Sierra's hot line "for five hours, once every five minutes" and kept getting a busy signal. Finally, unable to determine whether the fault was in the program or in the computer...
...Sierra Vista clinic in Lamont, pediatrician Pierrette Poinsett said she would quit before turning away patients. "I see up to three kids a week who test positive for tuberculosis," she said. "This proposition will result in more disease, more teenage pregnancy. It targets the most vulnerable population -- children. It is unconscionable...
...report, it will say that dioxin remains a serious potential threat to human health and that possible links between the chemical and health problems, among them reproductive ills, should be further explored. "This study ranks with the Surgeon General's pronouncement that smoking causes lung cancer," says Sierra Club pollution expert George Colling, prematurely and hyperbolically, in the latest issue of the organization's monthly newspaper. And Peter deFur of the Environmental Defense Fund predicts that the document will lead to much tighter regulations, and in some cases even a ban, on the release of dioxin and related chemicals...
...food shortage. They talked of condoms melted on top of pizzas and sold to the unsuspecting; of rag mops left in water to soften, then dried, cut up and served with egg on a sandwich; of apples that cost a month's wages. "We are like lambs," says Elvis Sierra Laborit, a bakery worker from Havana, who is not a rebellious man. "We will be eating grass soon." Even he realized it was time...
...game techniques. The latest title, In Search of Spot, sends kids on a quest to rescue the Blasternaut's caterpillar-like space pal. The correct answer to a math problem puts the user closer to freeing Spot from the Trash Alien's ship. The Even More Incredible Machine, from Sierra On-Line, confronts users with more than 150 challenges to their ingenuity, ranging from launching a toy rocket to shooting a basketball through a hoop. To send up a rocket, a child must find a way to light the fuse. One possibility: using a magnifying glass to focus light rays...