Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great disservice is being done to Harvard's network users. Letting over ten thousand people falsely assume that their actions are private is akin to placing them all in a police interrogation room with a one-way mirror, and telling all of them that they are merely in a living room, being reflected by a large vanity mirror...
Another intelligent but pricey option, the rear-view, self-adjusting, electrochromatic mirror that protects the driver from the glare and intensity of headlights behind him, has already been installed on 5 million cars. Working on an extension of the same technology, Gentex, which developed the mirror, is testing auto glass that will dim at the flip of a switch to protect against sun glare and become completely opaque-to thwart prying eyes-when the ignition is off and the car is unoccupied...
Carney's objections to the ROTC program mirror those of the faculty and other groups which oppose the Rudenstine compromise. And interviews with alumni who played important roles in Harvard's stormy history with the program reveal a split that is very much a microcosm of the current debate...
...facilities also include the Whipple Observatory in Arizona, which houses among other equipment the Multiple Mirror Telescope used for interferometric observations of the stars. The Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass., is also part of the CfA and features an 84-foot radio antenna currently being used to search for extraterrestrial intelligence...
What's new is that today the radio rightists are wired into the political process. In 1994 the scream rose to the top. These fervent spiels, in which we heard America slinging, stinging, cajoling, annoying, persuading, finally transformed the social dialogue. In a 1993 poll by the Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press, 44% of Americans named talk radio as their chief source of political information. Listeners tend to be white, male and hep to conservative ideas -- just the audience the Republicans wanted to mobilize...