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...prey. But when they try to burrow into the CIA's secrets through its electronic link to that network, they face the ultimate barrier: the "air gap," says a senior intelligence official. For example, the CIA's "home-page" menu on the Internet offers viewers two unclassified publications: a Factbook on Intelligence and a World Factbook that gives statistics on foreign countries. But that electronic link is physically separated from the computer lines that carry the agency's secrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES IN CYBERSPACE | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

CREDIT: [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: The Kurdish Library, World Factbook}]CAPTION: Where They Live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are the Kurds? | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...have also flooded the scientific literature with 'scientific' reports which exculpate their products and focus on the physiological mechanism of cancer. In 1981, industrially supported cancer research totaled $300 million; this amount exceeds the expenditure of non-profit organizations by a factor of four to one, according to a factbook published...

Author: By Joanna R. Handelman, | Title: Tackling Cancer Straight On | 2/26/1983 | See Source »

...Washington, the new edition of the TV Factbook reported the worldwide progress of television. Items: 1) there are now 137 TV stations in 35 foreign countries compared with 439 in the U.S.; 2) foreign countries boast 6,600,000 TV sets, compared with 34 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...Television Factbook figured out that a mere $194,875 will buy one full hour of Class A (evening) time on all the U.S.'s 382 commercial TV stations. Although network key stations in New York value their evenings at about $6,000 an hour, the national average is only $510. In Bellingham, Wash, a sponsor can buy an evening hour on KVOS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, Aug. 9, 1954 | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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