Word: locks
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...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...
...Republicans take their mandate and go berserk. In the Senate Banking Committee, new G.O.P. chairman Alfonse D'Amato annoys the public with endless hearings on the Whitewater affair, stirring sympathy for Bill and Hillary Clinton. At the same time, Republican proposals to pluck children from their indigent mothers and lock them up in orphanages turn voters against G.O.P. ideas for welfare reform. Meanwhile, radicals like Senator Jesse Helms take over the G.O.P.'s foreign policy and defense strategy, riling allied countries with their nativism and voters with their disrespect for the Commander in Chief. Then the G.O.P.'s attempts...
Scientists have a lock on agenefor obesity in mice and are probably around the corner from pinpointing a counterpart in humans -- a major finding that may confirm doctors' suspicions that many obese people aren't necessarily responsible for their condition, according to a report to be published Thursday in Nature, a scientific journal. The findings -- which raise the possibility that drugs could control weight problems -- were developed by researchers at Rockefeller University. They say they have isolated the first gene that clearly participates in the normal process of regulating weight, though genetics remains one of several factors involved.TIME medical writer...