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While working with software-based firewalls--layers of protection that block junk e-mail and attacks on computers from hackers and viruses--Xie noticed that those programs slow down networks. So, like a true Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he retreated to his garage in his spare time and started working on a new approach. He envisioned a remote piece of hardware that screened Internet content and didn't interfere with application software. In 1997 Xie, an engineering graduate from Tsinghua University in Beijing, launched the network-security company NetScreen, which was eventually acquired by Jupiter Networks. That success allowed...
...MUCH JUNK IN THE TRUNK In an Irish study of 50 patients, two-thirds were so overweight that standard needles could not reach the muscle tissue in their rears through...
...instead for its pit-stops, between which we float like bees pollinating, forming only the vaguest impression of the community around us, from Felipe’s, to Staples, to ABP. It would hardly be surprising to find that most Harvard students think the Cambridge streets are constructed of junk food and cheap stationary. We see the place as more of a warehouse than a community, punctuated by the occasional eccentricity: Spare Change Man (“Sir? Girl. Girl you’re lookin’ lovely this evenin’!”), the speed-chess players...
...retold on an analyst's couch. The boy has fallen in love with comic books; studied and memorized their narrative outrages, their graphic ingenuity; saved them in meticulous stacks or mold-resistant wrappers. Then he hears his mother say she was cleaning up the basement and "I threw that junk out." Junk! the child cries. Those yellowing pages of newsprint, those copies of Mad and Vault of Horror and Weird Science were my obsession, my vocation, my youth...
...inferiority complex or a grudge. "What comics are going through is like a civil rights movement," says Spiegelman. "This museum show will help." Like Hitchcock thrillers and rock 'n' roll, comics are obeying the tidal pull of pop culture. What was once forbidden is now mainstream; what was once junk is now classic...