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...Smith” will often have numbers attached to their addresses. FAS runs on an older UNIX-based legacy system, which not only encompasses e-mail accounts, but also Webspace and storage space for files. Kroll said that Harvard’s e-mail system dates from the 1980s, which currently confines usernames to the technological restrictions from two decades ago. Usernames are limited to eight characters and can contain only letters and numbers. Certain departments, such as mathematics or astronomy and astrophysics, give their faculty and staff departmental e-mails in addition to their FAS addresses, which allows...
...custody and interviewed for several hours while police conducted forensic tests on the flour. At 4 a.m. they were finally allowed to go home. The experience was particularly unsettling because there was nothing unusual about the Harriers' event - the group has been gathering for runs in Beijing since the 1980s. So why did police decide to pay such close attention now? "Paranoia," says the runner...
Modern Turkey has looked Westward since its staunchly secular founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk decreed the separation of mosque and state shortly after World War I. The pro-Western political bent did not immediately translate into liberal economics. Corruption, cronyism and protectionism continued to cloud prospects until the 1980s. Even then, after a period of economic liberalization under reformist Prime Minister Turgut Ozal (a pal of Margaret Thatcher's), the old habits died hard. In 2001, Turkey suffered a full-blown financial crisis in which the Turkish currency lost nearly 50% of its value overnight...
...mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, has done a fine job of cleaning up his image from that formed during his stint as the angry, square-jawed head of Italy's post-fascist youth movement in the early 1980s. Rather than scuffling in far-right-wing street protests, the now 50-year-old has earned a solid center-right reputation for his agility in the legislative arena and on political talk shows. And though his jaw is still square, Alemanno is notably quicker to smile than he was in his tough-guy, jean-jacketed youth. That is all the more true...
...From a technical standpoint, flashy digital cameras and color iPods have set the bar so high for consumer gadgetry that spending, on average, 11 cents to send each text-only message seems absurd. The Short Message Service (SMS) protocol, a technology from the 1980s which still accounts for nearly all cell phone text messaging, has no formatting and a limit of 160 characters. Entering messages requires painstaking key pecking, and received messages can come out of order. Yet rather than dismiss it as backwards, most users see text messaging as a godsend and fail to appreciate it for the terrible...