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The Wire - News from The AP SEPTEMBER 18, 01:23 EDT Tipper Gore Jams With Grateful Dead LOS ALTOS, Calif. (AP) — Tipper Gore took to the stage with former members of the Grateful Dead, jamming to a song called ``The Women Are Smarter'' as her husband, Vice President Al Gore, mixed with campaign donors nearby. Mrs. Gore smiled all the while as she drummed alongside percussionist Mickey Hart and behind singer-guitarist Bob Weir on Friday night. For the second time this year, their band, known as the Flying Other Brothers Band, provided the musical entertainment for a Gore ...

SEPTEMBER 18, 01:20 EDT Gore Faces Tough Student's Questions By SCOTT LINDLAW Associated Press Writer FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Vice President Al Gore, visiting high schools to gather ideas on how to improve campus safety, faced tough questions from students who said security measures made them feel like prisoners. ``How can you help us make Fresno High more of a safe place than a prison?'' senior Paul Clement asked Gore at a town hall session Friday. ``Because there is a fine line between making the kids feel safe and making them feel like we can't get out of here.'' ...

The Wire - News from The AP Bradley Didn't Consult Army on Gays By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press Writer SEPTEMBER 19, 13:12 EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Bradley said Sunday he did not consult with military officials prior to telling a gay and lesbian magazine that homosexuals should be permitted to serve openly in the military. ``This is a statement of my personal views, my personal belief that gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military,'' the Democratic presidential candidate said on ABC's ``This Week.'' In an interview with The Advocate, released last week, the former New ...

Schroeder Threatened With New Electoral DisasterHome - Yahoo! - My Yahoo! - News Alerts - HelpYahoo! Messenger - online friends, instant messaging, voice chat  Home | Top Stories | Business | Tech | Politics | World | Local | Entertainment | Sports | Science | Health Yahoo! NewsWorld Headlines Saturday September 18 6:10 PM ET Schroeder Threatened With New Electoral Disaster Schroeder Threatened With New Electoral Disaster By Clifford CoonanBERLIN (Reuters) - Voters in the East German state of Saxony look set to inflict another electoral disaster on German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder when they elect their state parliament Sunday.The widely anticipated rout will act as further evidence of the unpopularity of Schroeder's austerity package and voter frustration at his red-green coalition's failure ...

Bradley Supports Gays in Military By SANDRA SOBIERAJ Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Gays should be protected by the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act and allowed to serve openly in the military, Bill Bradley said in a magazine interview released Thursday.On the question of a California anti-gay-marriage ballot initiative, Bradley also aligned himself more closely - and more readily - with the gay community's legislative agenda than Vice President Al Gore. Both Democratic presidential candidates are dueling for the influential gay and lesbian vote.``If I was a voter in California, I would not support the Knight initiative,'' Bradley told ...

ABCNEWS.com : Fred Moody - On Technology - The Big Bang, Part 2 Atlas Shrugs Special to ABCNEWS.com http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody.current.html David Melville is an eccentric physicist and thinker, and a friend of mine. He’s also terrified.      Melville is preoccupied with what he regards as the most dangerous event in human history: an experiment, scheduled for November, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. Brookhaven has a device, called the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, that has the world’s physicists tremendously excited. Scientists believe they can use the collider to duplicate the conditions that prevailed milliseconds after the Big Bang, ...

Various recent articles and statements have Pat Buchanan meeting with the Reform party's Lenora Fulani. There is little background given on her except she is a known communist. I have compiled background information on her at the following link for you to decide for yourselves. WHO IS Lenora Fulani

Various recent articles and statements have Pat Buchanan meeting with the Reform party's Lenora Fulani. There is little background given on her except she is a known communist. I have compiled background information on her at the following link for you to decide for yourselves. WHO IS Lenora Fulani

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Washingtonpost.com: Internet Law Favors First Amendment Internet Law Favors First Amendment By Joan Biskupic Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 12, 1999; Page A2 When a federal judge refused to stop the gadfly operator of an Internet site from publishing confidential Ford Motor Co. documents last week, she described the dispute over trade secrets as a clash between free speech and commercial innovation. "In this case, the battle is won by the First Amendment," Detroit Judge Nancy G. Edmunds concluded, allowing the operator of the blueovalnews.com site to continue posting the confidential documents he said he had received anonymously. ...

PC memory prices soar PC memory prices soar By Brooke CrothersSpecial to CNET News.com September 9, 1999, 1:20 p.m. PT URL: http://news.cnet.com/category/0-1003-200-114772.html A confusing mix of facts and rumors is causing a steep hike in memory chip prices, bringing some needed relief to beleaguered manufacturers but threatening to put the brakes on falling PC prices. Memory prices have surged 50 percent and more in various markets in the last week amid a swirl of rumors that the supply is beginning to shrink. The price of 64-megabit memory chips has jumped to as high as $14 from $8 in spot ...

ZDNet: Printer Friendly - Zap! ... and your PC's dead Zap! ... and your PC's dead By Kevin Poulsen, ZDNN September 9, 1999 5:44 PM PT URL: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2331772,00.htmlWASHINGTON -- With $500 and a trip to the hardware store, saboteurs can build a device capable of remotely disrupting computers, automobiles, medical equipment and nearly anything else dependant on electronics, according to a California engineer who demonstrated a homebrew computer death-ray at the InfowarCon '99 conference here Wednesday. Former Navy engineer David Schriner showed off an unwieldy device constructed from a parabolic reflector, a horn antenna and two automotive ignition coils, ...

The Truth About Christie Todd Whitman: She Got out While the Getting Was Good by Kate O'Beirne Kate O'Beirne is NR's Washington Editor. Amid all the talk about the difficulties of seeking office imposed by our evil campaign-finance system, little attention has been paid to the most obvious reason why New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman exercised a woman's prerogative and decided against running for the Senate: She feared she'd lose. Gov. Whitman enjoys an undeserved reputation as an electoral powerhouse. Her political persona — she was allegedly an economic conservative and social moderate — and her two X chromosomes ...

New York Post Online Edition: Commentary HILLARY'S NEW SUGAR DADDY By DICK MORRIS New York Post 9-07-99 WHY can't the Clintons just buy a home like anybody else? Why must everything they do have an angle, a gimmick, raise questions, look bad? Desperate to make the carpetbagger issue go away, the Clintons announced late on Thursday that they're buying a $1.7-million house in the high-priced Westchester town of Chappaqua. But apparently their income, assets and debts don't qualify them for the necessary $1.3-million mortgage. Lesser mortals would have simply looked for a cheaper house, or maybe even rented for ...

Thinner Crowds, Thinner Crowds, Less Violence Mark 1999 Million Youth March FOX News Updated 6.55 p.m. ET (2255 GMT) September 4, 1999 By Patrick Riley NEW YORK — The second Million Youth March ended peacefully Saturday in Harlem, matching neither the size nor the violence of last year's rally. Organizer Khallid Abdul Muhammad concluded the rally at 3:55 p.m. — five minutes early — and the crowd quickly and quietly dispersed. Last year, when the event threatened to go a few minutes beyond its permitted end-time, police in riot gear stormed the stage and Muhammad called on the crowd ...

Cryptonym - Research Microsoft, the NSA, and You <A HREF="http://www.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa.html">Squeeze here for original Press Release</A> Here is the press release; for the full details, look here. A sample program which replaces the NSA's key is here, at the bottom of the page. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Microsoft Installs US Spy Agency with Windows Research Triangle Park, NC - 31 August 1999 - Between Hotmail hacks and browser bugs, Microsoft has a dismal track record in computer security. Most of us accept these minor security flaws and go on with life. But how is an IT manager to feel when they ...

CNN is a Communist Entity Those are not Liberals, my friends. Real Liberals do not support murder, fraud, rape, extortion and harassment of religious groups and opposing political interests just for their beliefs.

Roll Call Online: News Scoops Roll Call Exclusive Baucus Top Aide Charges Harassment Former Chief of Staff Says Senator Fired Her After She Confronted Him By Mark Preston Sep. 3, 1999 - Sen. Max Baucus' (D-Mont.) chief of staff, Christine Niedermeier, on Friday accused the Senator of firing her after she rebuffed months of his sexual advances. "Senator Baucus terminated Christine Niedermeier in retaliation for her complaints of sexual harassment by him, after her direct confrontation with Senator Baucus requesting that he cease the conduct," said a statement provided exclusively to Roll Call by Niedermeier's lawyer, Elaine Charlson Bredehoft. ...

THE REGISTER: Official: the Net can give you syphilis The Register Official: the Net can give you syphilis Posted 26/08/99 5:34pm by Thomas C Greene http://www.theregister.co.uk/990826-000025.html The Internet has swarmed with health threats lately, the vast majority of which seem inevitably to originate in the United States. We have heard of ten-year-old American fatties glued to the monitor and developing adult-onset diabetes; we have heard how the mouse and keyboard are implicated in carpal tunnel syndrome; we have heard that the Internet causes insanity, addictions, compulsions, and personality disorders. Evidently one would be hard-pressed to locate a primitive band ...

THE REGISTER: Surfing the Net makes you mentally ill Surfing the Net makes you mentally ill The Register Posted 23/08/99 12:27pm by Tim Richardson http://www.theregister.co.uk/990823-000015.html   Eleven million people -- six per cent of Internet users -- are addicted to the Net, according to a gaggle of psychologists in the US. People who surf for more than four hours a day are sick and should seek immediate medical attention. Symptoms range from mental disorders to behavioural abnormalities. In extreme cases, they could even get eyestrain and may have to wear corrective prescription glasses. "Marriages are being disrupted, kids are ...