Word: crackings
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...surprising extent, solutions to the problem of overfishing also exist, at least on paper, and that's what critics of the fishing industry find so encouraging--and so frustrating. Last year, for example, Congress passed landmark legislation that requires fishery managers to crack down on overfishing in U.S. waters. Perhaps even more impressive, the U.N. has produced a tough-minded treaty that promises to protect stocks of fish that straddle the coastal zones of two or more countries or migrate, as bluefin tuna and swordfish do, through international waters in the wide-open oceans. The treaty will take effect, however...
Computer scientists benefit from vox-pop research too. In 1994, four encryption experts enlisted 600 Internet volunteers to crack a secret code protected by a software "key" 129 digits long. Its creators had estimated that it would take 40 quadrillion years to solve the puzzle; the online team did it in eight months and in the process gave software designers new insights into building better security systems. Hackers have become so adept at finding security holes in the Internet that Netscape, maker of the leading Web browser, pays a bounty for any chinks in the program's encryption armor that...
...incumbent Republican Mayor Rudolf Giuliani, mainly because of the crime issue (New York is now safer than at any time since 1964), and because the city is reaping the benefits of a strong national economy. Maureen Dowd dubs Giuliani "the happy dictator" in the New York Times, and people crack jokes about how all New Yorkers want is for the trains to run on time...
Maureen Dowd dubs Giuliani "the happy dictator" in the Times, and people crack jokes about how all New Yorkers want is for the trains to run on time...
...didn't see this coming, according to TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. Freezing up to two-thirds of the Palestinian Authority's revenue ? Israel's attempt to force Arafat to crack down on Islamic militants ? was bound to backfire. "What it is actually doing is antagonizing (Arafat)," says Beyer...