Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harder; it means addressing the underlying causes of violence. The boys involved in last year's shootings shared three traits: they were estranged from family and classmates (in some cases owing to poorly treated mental illness); they had immersed themselves in a violent entertainment subculture; and they had ready access to guns...
Last Sunday, the computer virus Chernobyl disabled the hard drives of computers across the Campus, preventing access to everything from theses to lowly expos papers. Those who lacked sufficient protection in the form of anti-viral programs had to suffer both the loss of countless hours as they attempted to restore their papers and the supercilious comments of their peers. The number of students who do, indeed, back up every assignment they have on a disk is quite small. Harvard students prize efficiency, and so due to the rarity of complete computer failure, not many expend the effort required...
...dust settles, thesis-writers have reached page 83 in the scanning of their hard copy, and most have jury-rigged their hard drive to give access to their files, that thought fades away. What are the chances of another virus striking Harvard again this year? Life at Harvard goes on, and the future prevention of lost paper disasters still isn't considered worth the effort required to back up one's entire hard drive. DANCING IN TOYLAND-Meredith B. Osborn; COMPUTER VIRUS WOES-Breezy H. Tollinger
...rubato soup. The capital offenses were in the finale, where often his left hand growled indistinctly or pounded an ostinato where it should have been a more sensitive accompanist, and once he even wandered into a thicket of wrong notes. It made one grateful and Perahia did not have access to Beethoven's rickety old Broadwood piano...
...already loaded with debt from its acquisition last year of the TCI cable system, AT&T was able to outbid Comcast largely because it can make more off MediaOne's cable customers, using the cable lines to sell phone service and, in conjunction with At Home, high-speed Internet access. That last piece apparently scares both AOL and Microsoft. And so the biggest software company and the biggest online service emerge to contest the biggest phone carrier. MORE...