Word: hacks
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...Everyone!", on computer microchips that can be implanted in humans, set off alarm bells [Oct. 24]. While each chip contains a personal ID number that could be scanned like a bar code and provide needed medical data, there is a serious danger. The government or anyone smart enough to hack a security system could end up using biochips to track a person's movements and activity. Should biochips become commonly used, people might then be forced to have them implanted. And if that happened, anyone without a biochip could not function in this society...
...read I was a Republican hack. One day I read I was a Democratic hack. The only thing I did between those two nights was sleep." PATRICK FITZGERALD, special prosecutor leading the probe into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity...
...After more than an hour of balancing at the front of the canoe to hack and kick at the door, Will finally got it open. He retrieved the two cats and the owner's wedding ring, then grabbed some clean clothes and got back into the canoe. Nearly four hours after we met at the water's edge, we were ready to paddle back to our cars...
...They fired him and stripped him of his Q clearance, the Department of Energy equivalent of top-secret clearance. Carpenter's after-hours sleuthing, they said, was an inappropriate use of confidential information he had gathered at his day job. Under U.S. law, it is illegal for Americans to hack into foreign computers...
...sixth floor of the Central Bank of Samoa building, Deputy Prime Minister Misa Telefoni points out the window to Tusitala's mountain tomb: "See, it's up under those trees - right on top. That's an indication of how much the Samoans cared for him, because they had to hack the road up there and carry his heavy coffin." Telefoni's memory of Tusitala, or "Writer of Tales," as he was known locally, is entwined with his own family history: "He had a very close relationship with an old uncle of mine." That man was Harry Moors, an American trader...