Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TYPICAL HARVARD STUDENT, who is already scraping the bottom of the barrel to plunk down $15,000 for a Harvard education this year, is increasingly finding occasion to fork over another $2,000 while he's at it. The personal computer bug has now officially bitten Harvard and while they aren't saying as much openly, the implicit message from Harvard officials is clear...
Volkswagen's Beetle became history's bestselling automobile in 1972 when its sales reached 15,007,340 and passed the mark set by Henry Ford's pioneering Model T. Small wonder. The bug was backed by what a panel of judges assembled by Advertising Age magazine last week called the best American ad campaign since World War II. Created by Doyle Dane Bernbach, VW's ads ran from...
Malaria research had largely come to a halt during the years that chloroquine and DDT seemed all conquering. But Dr. Ruth Nussenzweig of N.Y.U. continued to pursue a malaria vaccine, a goal many viewed as impossible. The malaria bug presented unique obstacles. The first was the complex life cycle of the Plasmodium parasite, which is in a sense three bugs in one (see diagram): the sporozoite, which enters the human bloodstream when an infected mosquito bites; the merozoite, which invades the red blood cells and causes the disease's chills and fever; and the gametocyte, which, when ingested...
Most interesting however is how the Japanese connected market. No intelligence agent sent by Japanese corporate barons penetrated some impregnable vault in a Harvard laboratory basement. Nor did they bug the telephone of a Medical School professor. According to a report in Fortune Magazine, the vital research information was handed to a Japanese executive-because he asked...
...code is enough to throw the whole program out of kilter. At one stage in the game's development, the computer had the captain walking in mid-air because one subroutine was inadvertently modifying another subroutine's instructions. "I almost went blind trying to find that bug," Wise recalls...