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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1996)
He heard the footsteps behind him, the cocking of the hammer. He sensed the sweaty finger wrapping its way around the trigger. ‘‘Give me all your money or I’ll blow your brains out," a voice mumbled. He sighed. Hot again. Frankly this ATM holdup thing was getting, well, overdone. Hot even the f varied. His roommate last week at the convenience store? Exactly the same line. Or I’ll blow your threat brains out. Right. Why not something new... something like ... or you won’t live to see another sunrise. Ho, too John Wayne. Okay, Okay, what about... or you’ll never get a chance to test-drive that new... Oh, forget it. He scooped the stack of bills from the ATM withdrawal door and turned, the deadly weapon. What was it about bad guys, anyway? Don’t they keep up? H Give me the U 04, Vv XV WJl kyj.JL.J~O J. J. W O X X -TV. X. XX W J. O X X kX X calmly facing money now,” the voice demanded coarsely, the gun rising to a 90 degree angle. Ho, make that 98 degrees; clearly the guy was nervous. The student smiled faintly. Sure, prolonging it like this was dangerous, but this time he wanted it all. The bright flash. The deafening sound. The tiny steel rocket ship skimming straight toward his heart. His jaw flinched as he watched the bad guy slowly squeeze the trigger... BAI\TG! The student ducked quickly to his left, the flash instantly triggering the whirring ATM retinal-scan freeze mechanism. The bullet screamed ^ a stop a chest hair before impact, the man who fired it frozen in place like some gigantic ice cube, a puzzled look on his face. The police would arrive any second, haul the bad guy away. The student chuckled. Turned back to retrieve his card. Damn, that f s good software, ’ 1 '; IBM I Bf What will the next generation of software be? Come to Microsoft and shape it. Real jobs. Real internships. With real responsibility. ill i : V I. V.'■■"IS Technical Interviews for Full Time Jobs & Paid Summer Internships Mon. Oct. 7 & Tues. Oct. 8 Register with Career Center before Mon. Sept. 9 Check out www.microsoft.com/college for details Microsoft © 1996 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.