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...designed to protect against viruses. In , advertising that frightens more than it informs, they flog products with names like Flu Shot +, Vaccinate, Data Physician, Disk Defender, Antidote, Virus RX, Viru-Safe and Retro-V. "Do computer viruses really exist? You bet they do!" screams a press release for Disk Watcher 2.0, a product that supposedly prevents virus attacks. Another program, VirALARM, boasts a telling feature: it instructs an IBM PC's internal speaker to alert users to the presence of a viral intruder with a wail that sounds like a police siren...
...reassuring. Knowing that the field is fairly well complete, the spectators will be able to kick back over the next two weeks and trust their emotions. When it comes to expressive faces, the finish line has nothing on the living room. Not every Olympic event compels every watcher, but every winner does. Some people can blithely read a book during the actual competition, but they have to glance up at the victory lap, and they almost always smile. To be the best at something, the best in the world...
...There are now some presidents who bridge the gap between the worlds of traditional academic values and the policy issues that are increasingly crucial for a university's survival," says Jack H. Shuster, education and public policy professor at Claremont Graduate School and a self-described "president-watcher." He says that this new breed can be called "scholar-practitioners," neither the traditional denizens of the academic world nor the mediators of the legal profession...
...mission would rest on the fragile foundation of the Soviet leader's revival of detente with the West. Could good relations between the superpowers, they ask, last long enough to complete, say, a ten-year project? "There are potential benefits to us from such a mission," says U.S. Space Watcher Nicholas Johnson. "But there is great uncertainty about the political environment...
...Exhibit A in a campaign to convince international public opinion that the U.S.S.R. now has a more benign foreign policy. "Even the professional Russia-haters must now admit that things have changed, and they've changed for the better," says Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's best- known America watcher. "We are going to do something terrible to you -- we are going to deprive you of an enemy." Gorbachev would have the world believe he is ready to do with the cold war what he is starting to do with the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan: he is declaring it over...