Word: access
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...peace moves. "Such an act of terrorism by Abu Nidal would be a message to the U.S. and a slap in the face for Yasser Arafat," said Ian Geldard, director of research at London's Institute for the Study of Terrorism. Allied with Libya, Abu Nidal would presumably have access to Muammar Gaddafi's ample supply of Semtex, a plastic explosive made in Czechoslovakia...
...that, and a painter of unassailable, though uneven, greatness! Courbet has become one of the titans of radical nostalgia. There cannot be a political artist alive who does not dream of having Courbet's sweeping breadth of access to the public. "Courbet Reconsidered," the show of 97 paintings and drawings, organized by the art historians Sarah Faunce and Linda Nochlin, currently at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City (and scheduled to open at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in February), is not, and could not have been, a "complete" show. But it is the first attempt by an American...
Even the most dangerous criminal suspects are usually allowed access to a telephone, but not Kevin Mitnick -- or at least not without being under a guard's eye. And then he is permitted to call only his wife, mother and lawyer. The reason is that putting a phone in Mitnick's hands is like giving a gun to a hit man. The 25-year-old sometime college student is accused by federal officials of using the phone system to become one of the most formidable computer break-in artists of all time...
Mitnick, who was arraigned last week in Los Angeles and is being held without bail, faces a possible 30 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. His alleged crimes include gaining illegal access to computers at Digital Equipment Corp., in Massachusetts, and at the University of Leeds, in England, and stealing valuable computer programs and long-distance phone services. Prosecutors assert that it cost Digital $4 million to repair and upgrade its computer-security program after Mitnick's intrusion. He is believed to be the first person charged under a new federal law that prohibits breaking into an interstate...
...information and devices should be available to every man or woman on earth who wants them. According to surveys by the United Nations and other organizations, fully half the 463 million married women in developing countries (excluding China) do not want more children. Yet many have little or no access to effective methods of birth control, such as the Pill and the intrauterine device (IUD). The World Bank estimates that making birth control readily available on a global basis would require that the $3 billion now spent annually on family-planning services be increased to $8 billion by the year...