Word: eavesdropped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who find it difficult to subtract four-digit numbers may wish to bring a calculator, or at least scratch paper, to the Museum of Fine Arts' exhibition "Picasso: the Early Years." Even easier, however, is to eavesdrop as visitors whisper to each other while subtracting 1881, the year of Picasso's birth, from the date of a painting's execution. The solutions are often unbelievably small...
...scientists could eavesdrop on the brain of a human embryo 10, maybe 12 weeks after conception, they would hear an astonishing racket. Inside the womb, long before light first strikes the retina of the eye or the earliest dreamy images flicker through the cortex, nerve cells in the developing brain crackle with purposeful activity. Like teenagers with telephones, cells in one neighborhood of the brain are calling friends in another, and these cells are calling their friends, and they keep calling one another over and over again, "almost," says neurobiologist Carla Shatz of the University of California, Berkeley...
...boom in wireless communications has led to a corresponding boom in wireless snooping. The community of listeners--as people who use scanning equipment to eavesdrop on various wireless devices call themselves--is startlingly large. Bob Grove, publisher of the scanner journal Monitoring Times, puts their number at 10 million to 20 million...
...what about the latter? What about industrial spies who steal trade secrets? Or the New York politician who used to brag about hearing former Governor Mario Cuomo's daily phone calls? Or the folks who eavesdrop on your baby monitor at midnight...
...resigned his post when his life among the prostitutes surfaced. Shortly afterward, so did his literary life. Random House advanced him $2.5 million to write a book about the Clinton White House, but Morris forgot to tell the President about the contract; thus in effect he was paid to eavesdrop on the Oval Office, not unlike Richard Nixon. He was rewarded with a breakfast at the New Yorker magazine, where journalists, ad salespeople and academicians convened to certify his good fortune, popularity, newsworthiness, bankability, celebrity, whatever...