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...squashing one inadvertently while he slept. The Japanese, though, have never been passive conservationists. Consider the bonsai, the tiny trees that are shaped over generations into living pieces of sculpture. The bonsai represent the landscape architect's respect for nature, but also the notion that nature is at its best when shaped by the hand...
Whether new or vintage, all Peoples eyewear shares a kind of avant-garde antiquarianism. These are the specs Benjamin Franklin would have worn if he'd been into performance art instead of kite flying. Two Peoples best sellers: frames that combine tortoiseshell eye pieces and temples with a wire bridge (Nick Nolte sports a pair in the recent New York Stories); and clip-on sunglasses, the sort that '30s movie stars would attach to their specs to check out a polo match over at Will Rogers' place...
...electronically without setting foot inside, either by drilling a hole or by placing a device on the outside wall of the code room. "If they could touch it, they could penetrate it," says former official. "At least, that's what our guys say we can do. Our best offensive and defensive guys spent a lot of time looking at this. They concluded it was not a problem...
...elemental assumption in the intelligence game that no security system is foolproof. U.S. investigators reasoned that if the KGB's best technical experts had access to the PCC repeatedly for several hours at a time, they might be able to devise ways to spoof or bypass one device after another. Eventually, they might make it all the way to the equipment inside the State Department and CIA communications vaults without being detected. But, says an official directly involved in this analysis, "I never saw a scenario that was credible." Declares another source: "If there had been a penetration, it would...
Wild walking is the best, but all walking is a matter of style. It is an escape from thought, a liberation, and also a way of thinking, of setting the world astir...