Word: duking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real losers in this situation are the U.S. residents who are forced to use relatively weak software. In January, a graduate student at Duke University took only four hours to break a code similar to those Web browsers use to protect credit card numbers. Netscape and Microsoft offer strong-encryption versions of their browsers to U.S. residents who ask for them, but because of export restrictions, the weak version is the standard. Many other products are similarly affected. Also in January, two private organizations, using $250,000 in computer equipment, cracked a code standard for government agencies and financial institutions...
...time when campus protests are more likely to involve bans on booze than the U.S. bombing of Yugoslavia, one cause seems to have galvanized students as nothing else in more than a decade. In the past three months the issue of sweatshop labor has sparked student sit-ins at Duke, Georgetown and the University of Wisconsin. Backed by unions and human-rights groups, students on more than 50 other campuses from Harvard to Holy Cross are circulating petitions, picketing college bookstores and launching websites calling for "sweat-free" clothing. At Yale, students held a "knit-in," doing needlework...
...mail, which has enabled them to get the word out to students across the country. "There's no way hundreds of students would have marched up to a university administration building just because some human-rights group asked them to," says Tico Almeida, a Duke senior who led the campus rally back in January. "Students have grasped this issue and made it theirs...
...Duke Ellington, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, was given a special music citation "in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture." The award went over much better than Elia Kazan...
...Crimson is on a roll, having won three of its last four games, with its only loss over that stretch coming against No. 2 Duke. Harvard continued its aggressive play at Vermont Wednesday, jumping out to a 7-3 lead and hanging on despite three Catamount goals in the final 3:09 for the victory...