Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whose extraordinarily well-guarded personal computer Mitnick had allegedly broken into on Christmas Day. Shimomura, playing Pat Garrett to Mitnick's Billy the Kid, had taken his revenge by tracking the wily hacker across cyberspace-through the Internet, through local and long-distance phone companies and at least two cellular-phone carriers-until he finally traced him to his hideout in an apartment complex in Raleigh, North Carolina. And so there they stood last week, hunter and hunted, face to face for the first time. "Hello, Tsutomu," Mitnick said, with husky, spaghetti-western cool. "I respect your skills...
...American trade embargo, does business with Cuba: Israeli firms are second only to Mexican companies in textile investments. These days, the palm-lined patio at the elegant La Ferminia restaurant in suburban Flores is jammed with foreign businessmen power-lunching with government ministers and discreetly whispering into their cellular phones...
Washington announced punitive tariffs on $1 billion worth of Chinese products, ranging from plastics to cellular phones, in retaliation for Beijing's failure to resolve a dispute over the piracy of American patents and copyrights. China, which sells about 40% of its exports to the U.S., swiftly counterpunched, saying it would then impose retaliatory tariffs on American compact discs, cigarettes and other items...
...Clinton Administration regards as Beijing's inadequate efforts to curb widespread piracy of American computer software, music and films. The new tariffs are intended to equal the estimated revenue lost through theft of U.S. copyrights and patents in China. Among the hardest- hit Chinese exports are plastics, picture frames, cellular phones, answering machines, sporting goods and some bicycles. Beijing responded with 100% tariffs on compact discs, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages and other products, threatening a trade war between two of the world's largest markets...
...Like many others, he understood the power of new molecular and cellular methods for dissecting viral functions," Varmus told the Harvard Gazette. "But unlike most others, he retained a deep appreciation for the fact that viruses infect whole organisms, not just cells in petri dishes, and that these infection cause human suffering and death...