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With the obsolescence of the No.2 pencil, one of this nation's major industries will certainly collapse. Graphite production will disappear except for the minuscule amounts needed for lock lubricants. Lumber yards will fall silent as thousands of glistening yellow and blue No.2 pencils with their red rubber erasers sit idly on stationers' shelves...
Just days after lead defense attorney Robert Shapiro promised to limit statements to the media, his side is apparently leaking again. Quoting defense sources, the Associated Press reported today that prosecutors drilled out the lock on Nicole Brown Simpson's safe-deposit box and seized photographs of her with a bruised forehead and injured left eye. The pictures show injuries Ms. Simpson had after police were summoned to the Simpson home in 1989. Simpson pleaded no contest to spousal battery in that incident. Prosecutors are expected to argue that the photos show a pattern of spouse abuse by O.J. Simpson...
...guards in a corporation's front lobby. They are supposed to keep the tens of millions of people with Internet access from also having access to the company's internal computer system, where precious corporate assets may be stored. Firewalls typically use passwords, keys, alarms and other devices to lock out intruders. But though such obstacles are an essential feature of any well-designed security system, experts warn that the technology of firewalls is still in its infancy. "There is no such thing as absolute security," says Steven Bellovin, co-author of Firewalls and Internet Security. "There is only relative...
Harvard's reservations about joining the plan may stern from the fact that a fixed tuition plan for students could lock colleges into prices and therefore hurt them...
Harvard's reservations about joining the plan may stern from the fact that a fixed tuition plan for students could lock colleges into prices and therefore hurt them...