Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piece, "College Life vs. My Moral Code" that appeared in The New York Times Monday, Hack expressed disillusionment with a rooming system that allowed her brother, also an Orthodox Jew, to live at home in New Haven during all four years at the college...
...years separated from him, did not wish to be quoted in the same article with Steve.) "When we grew up, it was simple to rebel," he recalls. There were so many rules to be broken. When he wore jeans to a high school assembly in 1963, violating the dress code, "it was like burning the flag." He put on a tie-dyed shirt and was beaten up for it. His long hair got him pulled over by a sheriff who threatened to cut it off. "That was wrong," he says of the law officer's bullying. "It was easy...
WASHINGTON: Millions of middle-class Americans could end up paying more to Uncle Sam in the next 10 years, thanks to an obscure provision of the tax code known as the Alternative Minimum Tax. Families of four with incomes of $58,300 in 1996 tax dollars will be hardest hit. Ironically, the AMT was designed to close loopholes for the very rich. What can you do about it? Money Daily reports that lawmakers decided not to tackle the worsening situation because the media and taxpayer groups have not been vocal about it. So you may want to stop browsing...
...trick, says Kelly, is to restore that balance. And not surprisingly, he and others point out that what technology has taken, technology can restore. Take the problem of "magic cookies"--those little bits of code most Websites use to track visitors. We set up a system at Pathfinder in which, when you visit our site, we drop a cookie into the basket of your browser that tags you like a rare bird. We use that cookie in place of your name, which, needless to say, we never know. If you look up a weather report by keying...
...binary wonders of the computer age: Steve Jobs, the flower-child dreamer whose Apple Computer brought the world the Mac's cheerful desktop icons, and Bill Gates, the brilliant and ruthless competitor whose Microsoft tamed the world with Windows after sneaking in behind those scary columns of DOS code. Their battle for control of the home computer suggested '60s barricades re-erected for the corporate '80s: Yin vs. Yang. Luke vs. Vader. Kennedy vs. Nixon. Jeans vs. Pinstripes. Art vs. Commerce...