Word: coded
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According to the phone company, the 617 area code will run out of new numbers in two years and the 508 region will be exhausted in three years...
...Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities must decide before the end of the year how to distribute the new codes. One option is an overlay plan, assigning new numbers to newly-installed lines within the old area codes. The other is the traditional "area code split," in which invisible lines are drawn within the area, resulting in changed numbers for the current residents...
NYNEX officials hope to implement what they call the "geographic overlay" plan. This would keep current telephone numbers in eastern Massachusetts the same, but would install new lines in the immediate Boston-area section of the 781 area code and other lines in outlying areas of the city part of the 978 region...
...biologists mapping human chromosomes looked for a gene that enforced cellular mortality, but found nothing. One thing that did catch their eyes, however, was a small area at the tip of chromosomes that had no discernible purpose. Dubbed a telomere, the sequence of nucleic acids did not appear to code for any traits. Instead it resembled nothing so much as the plastic cuff at the end of a shoelace that keeps the rest of the strand from unraveling...
Harvard has eschewed the open honor code of Princeton. Professors have been known to make students drop off assignments in locked boxes...