Word: high
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early failings and flailings, the President's popularity outside Washington has remained strong: his approval rating has ranged between 59% and 71% in recent polls. For the time being, the President can coast on a strong swell of national contentment and hope that interest rates don't climb too high. He also continues to benefit from his obvious enjoyment of the presidency, his self-deprecating humor, his grasp of the issues raised at press conferences...
...only one. A previously undisclosed series of high-tech espionage coups have been achieved by both sides. "Foreign intelligence services have gained access to classified information in U.S. computers by remote means," a former senior Government computer expert told TIME. "And we have done the same thing to them...
Because the military operates many computers at what is called system high, in which all users are cleared for the highest level of information the network possesses, a sophisticated insider who became a spy would have considerable access. The spy could transmit information to a less closely watched part of the network -- or to an outsider -- without appearing to do so by using what is known as a covert channel. This involves signaling the secret message the agent wants to send in binary code by making minute changes in the speed or the order in which the "bits" of other...
...grandson of a Shi'ite mullah, Mughniyah trained with Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. A high school dropout, he excelled at terrorism; his boldness and quick grasp of explosives and weaponry impressed his commanders. But he fell out with Fatah leaders and in 1982, when Israeli troops invaded Lebanon and occupied his village, Teir Debbe, Mughniyah joined the newly formed and more radical Hizballah (Party of God). He took to wearing religious garb even as he recruited activists and professionals to the Shi'ite cause. He rose quickly to the top of the organization...
History shows that genetic misinformation can be severely damaging. Take, for example, the supposed link between the XYY chromosome pattern and criminal behavior. In 1965 a study of violent criminals in a Scottish high-security mental institution found that a surprisingly high percentage had a particular chromosomal abnormality: in addition to the X and Y chromosomes normally found in men, each carried an extra Y, or "male" chromosome. The press and public seized on the idea that these so-called supermales were genetically predestined to a life of crime. That interpretation proved false. Further investigations showed that the vast majority...