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Senate establishes special Y2K committee
The Senate late last week established a special committee to address the Year 2000 problem.
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Review tests NASA's security
The National Security Agency, the supersecret agency known for its computer security expertise, soon will begin trying to penetrate NASA's missioncritical systems as part of a comprehensive security review by the General Accounting Office of agencies' key computer systems. Jack Brock, GAO director
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Notebooks from Digital, Toshiba feature mobile-ready Pentium IIs
Digital Equipment Corp. and Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. are among the 15 laptop vendors announcing their first Pentium IIequipped notebooks following Intel Corp.'s release last week of the highly anticipated chip for the mobile market. The new Pentium IIs for mobile PCs, running at cl
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Army picks three vendors to provide peripherals, software products
Sixteen months after restructuring its manufacturing and business operations, HewlettPackard Co. today slashed prices by up to 37 percent on its Unixbased technical workstations.
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HP slashes Unix workstation prices
Sixteen months after restructuring its manufacturing and business operations, HewlettPackard Co. today slashed prices by up to 37 percent on its Unixbased technical workstations.
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Feds ramping up Y2K outreach program
Sixteen months after restructuring its manufacturing and business operations, HewlettPackard Co. today slashed prices by up to 37 percent on its Unixbased technical workstations.
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IT problems at the root of government's audit woes
Members of Congress and the General Accounting Office today said shortcomings in agencies' information technology systems including everything from security to poorly integrated systems were one of the reasons agencies cannot generate accurate financial statements.
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Welcome Relief
The day before the Federal Emergency Management Agency's quickresponse team rolled into town, the swollen Red River crept over a dike and turned Grand Forks, N.D., and its sister city,
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Medical Matchmaker
It was not unusual for the Hadleys, a deeply religious family living in Paducah, Ky., to discuss serious subjects while having dinner. One recent discussion for the Hadley family Chuck, Gwen and their three children: Christina, 15; Nicole, 14; and Andrew, 12 was about organ donation. Nicole, w
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Remote Rx
Even if doctors still made house calls, they probably couldn't help the 30 troops who man a remote U.S. Army communications outpost on Hill 1326 in Bosnia. In good weather, the hill is a two to threehour Humvee drive from the nearest paved road. It takes even longer in the winter, when the troops
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Power to the People
A chainlink gate and a guard's station are all that is left today of the W.R. Grace Co. battery separator plant in Acton, Mass. Beyond the perimeter, where the fence once stood and a driveway now leads nowhere, looms a fiveacre concrete mound in which is buried poisonous chemical refuse from one
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The Whole Wired World
It's hard to overstate the impact of the Internet on American life. In the past four years, the Internet has become as significant a technology as the telephone, the TV or the personal computer. Originally designed to help defend the country from foreign attack, this network of networks is so much
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Found in Space
The U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division known as the Big Red One attacked Saddam Hussein's vaunted Republican Guard and a brigade of regular Iraqi troops Feb. 26, 1991, at 10 p.m., with no moon to shed light on the landscape of the Iraqi desert. The Iraqi forces, some 8,000 men, were part of Sadd
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State and Local Leaders Back Revised Internet Tax Bill
State and Local Leaders Back Revised Internet Tax Bill
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To Catch a Thief
He was the last one off the bus. Customs Service senior inspector Virginia Rodriguez, standing just less than 5 feet tall, looked up at the bearded man in the aqua Tshirt and asked him, as she does thousands of others crossing the border into Texas, why he went to Mexico.
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Friendlier Skies
It was a bright, sunny morning a good day for flying, Capt. Ross Sagun thought as he boarded the 737 and took his seat in the cockpit. Sagun anticipated a smooth trip from Las Vegas to Denver, and he and the crew prepared for departure. Sagun received clearance from the control tower and taxied t
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Cyclone Silicon
On April 25, 1994, G.W. Burnett was sitting in the den of his ranchstyle home in DeSoto, Texas, watching a Texas Rangers baseball game on TV, when a news bulletin flashed on the screen. A tornado had been sighted about 15 miles northwest of DeSoto. Although he lives in what Texans refer to as 'Tor
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Opening Doors and Lives
It was not unusual for the Hadleys, a deeply religious family living in Paducah, Ky., to discuss serious subjects while having dinner. One recent discussion for the Hadley family Chuck, Gwen and their three children: Christina, 15; Nicole, 14; and Andrew, 12 was about organ donation. Nicole, w
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Letter From the Editors
On March 23, 1997, Federal Computer Week celebrated its 10th anniversary. Milestones are important, and we wanted to publish something special for the occasion. But we didn't want to produce a typical anniversary issue, complete with nostalgia about computer systems of old and predictions about the
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