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...lines of classified code from the lab's top-secret computer database and storing the codes on the hard drive of his personal office computer. The actual transfer between systems was pretty easy, requiring little more than the kind of drag-and-click computer moves that millions of deskbound Americans perform every day. It wasn't exactly grist for a white-knuckle thriller...
Anything lacking meaning will be assigned one. My bet is that Burning Man will be the holiday for deskbound, no-collar workers. Not only does it offer the usual American pastimes--fast cars, parades, costume balls, picnics and all-night music--but it also provides the more contemporary attractions of survival camping, neon lights, nudity, performance art and staged extravaganzas. It's got the sun-dried culture of postmodern road warriors: deep ritual without religion, community without commitment, art without history, technology without boundaries. As essayist Bruce Sterling writes in the only book about the event, Burning Man (HardWired...
...Park, to make the movie in the first place. For Davies-Jones is not some casual thrill seeker but a serious scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma. Over the past 2 1/2 decades, he and his colleagues have revolutionized the study of tornadoes, teaching deskbound meteorologists to pack up their instruments and take them into the field...
...Central Intelligence, Gates began his CIA career "on a lark" in 1965. He accepted a + recruiter's invitation to an interview just for "a free trip to Washington." Once he got there, however, things got serious. The agency asked Gates to join, not as a "spy" but as a deskbound analyst, and he accepted. Yet when the agency offered to finance his part-time doctoral studies, Gates declined. He "didn't want to feel obligated to stay" if a good teaching job suddenly became open...
...that weird whistling sound heard throughout Hollywood last week may have been the collective sigh of relief from Columbia's bookkeepers upon learning that Peters is stepping down. Said to be dissatisfied with his deskbound duties, the former hairdresser is launching an independent company that will produce projects exclusively for Sony. What they will cost remains to be seen...