Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Will we become the 39th state in the union to say, 'If you steal somebody else's life, stand by, you face the risk of forfeiting your own life'?" asked Rep. Paul R. Haley (D-Weymouth) a death-penalty supporter, as he kicked off the debate...
...really of "the food stinks and the portions are too small" variety. Cassell tries to dig up meatier bones. He's written about the abuse of those ubiquitous "Five Hours Free!" diskettes that flood the mail. He's written about AOL hackers and AOHell, a program that helps delinquents steal members' passwords. And he's chronicled the AOL censorship policy that led to the banning of more than 100 words from chat-room names, from breasts to boy. On AOL, says Cassell, "even the word forbidden is forbidden." His first-ever act of protest was to write a program that...
...auction of Diana's clothes. The purchaser paid $25,300 but has reportedly turned down $150,000. In Macau a Volvo dealership used a photograph of Diana in an ad touting the safety of its cars (Volvo canceled its contract). Finally, in Boston, three masked men tried to steal two dresses of Diana's that were in the window of a boutique. An armed guard thwarted them, and the dresses are to be auctioned off, as planned, one for an AIDS charity called Community Servings...
...inability to keep information about ourselves private is far less insidious than our inability to protect our bodies and property from harm. A burglar entering our home violates our physical privacy in a far more serious way than someone who uses the Internet to steal from us. Most of us would rather receive junk mail than deal with door-to-door salespeople. Basically, the hoodlums have changed the tools of their trade. PAWAN K. BHARTIA Mitchellville...
...this kind rise or fall on whether the leadership can continue to have active folks down at the worker bee level," TIME's Laurence Barrett says. And, he adds, in the last eight months other factions in the religious right, such as the Family Research Council, have begun to steal the spotlight from the coalition...