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Hackers regularly cruise the Internet looking for prey. But when they try to burrow into the CIA's secrets through its electronic link to that network, they face the ultimate barrier: the "air gap," says a senior intelligence official. For example, the CIA's "home-page" menu on the Internet offers viewers two unclassified publications: a Factbook on Intelligence and a World Factbook that gives statistics on foreign countries. But that electronic link is physically separated from the computer lines that carry the agency's secrets...
Spring is just around the corner, at least according to Punxsutawney Phil, the famous forecasting groundhog in Punxsutawney, Pa. Phil did not see his shadow when pulled out of his burrow this morning. Only clouds. According to the century-old tradition, this means that spring will arrive early. Maybe so, but meterologists are predicting a winter storm on the east coast this weekend...
...this disorder is caused by the decrease in light [that occurs during the winter]," Heatherton said. "Studies have measured people's moods from season to season and found many to be feelings sad and dysphoric during winter." This might explain the peculiar winter phenomenon characterized by the urge to burrow deep within one's blankets and skip all classes in favor of watching soap operas...
...just as aggressively distorted as any six-piece overamplified noise band. Listen again, though, and the songs get very clear: over twenty of them, almost every one with its own simple chord structure, a single, simpler, cycling rhythm, and a riff likely to burrow into the average listener's inner ear and take up permanent residence. (Chris Knox himself favors disgusting metaphors, too--check out some of his cover...
...Gnome--As the name implies, the Gnome spends a great deal of time underground. Gnomes often burrow into the Science Center terminal room where they frantically send and receive E-mail and devise new ways to make smiley faces by typing punctuation marks. When Gnomes do come out of the Science Center, they don't stay in the light for long. They quickly burrow into their House Grills and TV Rooms, where they critique Star Trek the Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. Though any Gnome will happily tell you why these shows are inconsistent and sloppily conceived, a Gnome...