Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where there is money, there is temptation. Harvard's code of ethics for faculty requires professors to disclose financial ties fully. Still, there are few mechanisms for enforcement, and the school is trusting the faculty's honor. It is not difficult to imagine researchers manuevering into positions where they can do clinical trials for projects in which they have a financial interest...
Ethicists and even some administrators are saying privately that Harvard's code won't begin to stop profiteering by greedy professors and administrators involved in projects like the Institutes. School of Public Health economist Marc Roberts told the New York Times that because biotechnology stocks are extremely volatile, it would be relatively easy for Harvard researchers involved in the institutes to color test reports and share insider information to make money...
...traditional cryptographic applications, a scrambled message can be descrambled by the use of a special textbased code called a "key." If I have an "Alpha key" and you have an "Alpha key," then I can send you an e-mail message by first sticking my "Alpha key" into the "message scrambler" and then sending you the "Alpha-encoded" text. You can then read the message by sticking your "Alpha key" into the "message descrambler." Only you and I will be able to read the message...
...households in Hyogo prefecture, which includes Kobe, were covered by earthquake insurance. Even people who can afford to build a new home are likely to be stymied at first by a moratorium on postquake construction, a policy intended to avert slapdash projects and allow time for possible new building-code and zoning strictures. In Kobe's case, officials were thinking about extending the normal two-month delay to as long as half a year...
Most houses and commercial structures that went up after 1980, when Japan's building code had its last major revision, are still standing. But more than 80,000 older buildings suffered serious damage. The government has promised tougher standards for new buildings, but the immediate challenge is how to improve existing structures. Says Charles Scawthorn, vice president of EQE International, a San Francisco firm that specializes in quake-resistant engineering: ``This is the real heart of the seismic-hazard problem...