Word: attackable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cabot Professor of American Literature Alan E. Heimert '49, a member of the Harvard community for half a century, died last night in New York after a heart attack...
...ever diminishing impact, a few dot.coms are apparently coming to the same conclusion. Outpost is going ahead with a less jarring ad. Technology supersite Cnet, which made a splash with an ad featuring a man's visit to the proctologist, is altering the course of its $100 million attack, opting for a clear message over shock value...
...most common attack reported by hacker watchers makes use of a Trojan horse. These are programs with bizarre names like Back Orifice or Net Bus that can be hidden in an e-mail attachment--say, one of those animated birthday cards people seem to like e-mailing. Once you open it, you've installed the software--and the wily hacker has remote control of your...
...WHEN LETTER WRITERS ATTACK: Razor-edged vituperation may not add to enlightened discourse, but it has its pleasures--when you're not on the receiving end, at least. Our readers get wrathful at outspoken supporters of controversial politics, such as Lisa Bochard [NATION, May 24], shown with her M-16, whose recommendation that "teachers should be encouraged to have guns" earned the animus of 52: "When I read that, I had to scream." "Bochard's pathological relationship with her weapon makes me hope there are no little children who call her Mommy." "Pistol-packing pedagogues can teach the four...
PROSTATE PROMISE The study is tiny--only 11 men participated--but the results are tantalizing. Using an experimental genetically engineered vaccine, doctors have been able to trick the body into attacking prostate cancer. The vaccine consists of a patient's own cancer cells culled from the surgically removed tumor. When injected, the body recognizes the cells in the vaccine--as well as any lingering cells from the tumor--as foreign invaders and launches an all-out immune-system attack. Promising, yes. But whether further tests pan out is yet to be seen...