Word: collections
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Surfing the internet feels anonymous, like looking through the pages of a magazine in a library. But the websites you visit can look back at you. Many use "cookies" to collect data about your visit--where you go in the site, what links you click on. There was a blowup last year when it appeared that Internet advertising agency Doubleclick would match up its cookies with data from an off-line marketing company that had names, addresses and phone numbers of 88 million Americans. That plan, since abandoned, would have let the company create personal profiles of individuals and their...
...distribution center in the Gaza Strip's Tuffah neighborhood earlier this spring, Palestinians clutched small, pink ration slips for the emergency foodstuffs the U.N. Relief and Works Agency hands out to refugees who have been unable to commute to work in Israel during the intifadeh. Abu Amira had already collected his ration and loaded it onto his cart. He was sweaty, dirty and angry. He came early, but it was hot even at 8 a.m. First, he pressed through a crowd of men to hand his ticket to a clerk behind a chicken-wire grill. The clerk stamped his ticket...
...When he chaired the panel, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch tried to speed up hearings for Bush judicial nominees so Democrats wouldn't have time to collect damaging information on them and mount a counter-offensive. Leahy, who now controls the schedule, will slow it down so Democratic staffers can stockpile more ammunition on conservative nominees before their hearings. Some of Bush's picks who may be targeted...
...existing addictions in the world, the one that has bewitched me—book buying—is entirely legal, fairly inexpensive, potentially beneficial, not especially perishable and completely free of calories or deleterious side effects. And, since I have never ventured into the territory of trying to collect rare books, I have been saved yet again from something potentially ruinous...
...then there were the times I went away. At different points in my college career, I have found myself, variously: burrowing through the musty Gov Docs stacks to collect statistical data; flying into New York to interview a movie director; spinning at the Park Plaza Hotel; lounging in the VIP room of London’s Ministry of Sound; in love...