6-13-96. NYP: Markoff: "Clinton Proposes Initiatives On the Scrambling of Data." Under increasing pressure from Congress and the computer industry, the Clinton Administration proposed a series of new data-scrambling policy initiatives yesterday that it said would address the Government's national security concerns while also permitting American companies to compete more effectively overseas. 6-14-96. NYP: William Gibson: "The Net Is a Waste of Time. And that's exactly what's right about it." The Web, in its clumsy, larval, curiously innocent way, offers us the opportunity to waste time, to wander aimlessly, to daydream about the countless other lives, the other people, on the far sides of however many monitors in that postgeographical meta-country we increasingly call home. It will probably evolve into something considerably less random, but in the meantime, in its gloriously unsorted Global Ham Television Postcard Universes phase, surfing the Web is a procrastinator's dream. And people who see you doing it might even imagine you're working. http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/gibber.txt (13 kb for 2) GIB_ber (for 2)