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...Cost of one packet of humanitarian daily rations, 140,000 of which have been dropped into Afghanistan...
...meantime, there's a civil defense movie staffers can go see which is short on information but long on frightening scenarios. "It will scare the bejesus out of you," said one staffer. In one frame someone is entering the mailroom of the Longworth Building with a packet strapped inside his jacket and in the next computer-generated frame the Longworth Building blows up. It?s good for democracy that member of Congress aren?t getting special treatment. But how good is it for the Republic that they?re getting little treatment at all? Let?s hope the task force gets...
...press packet distributed outside Mass. Hall yesterday, the students said they have exhausted all traditional avenues to enact change...
...advent of the Internet also transformed how phone companies move messages in a way that made Cisco the networking king. Traditional voice phone systems are circuit switched, meaning that a call opens a dedicated line between the parties that outsiders can't share. But data traffic is packet switched: messages are broken into discrete units, or packets, that share their lines with the packets of other users, greatly increasing the speed and volume of the data sent. It's mass transit for data. Moreover, packets can take different paths to their destinations, which is where Cisco's routers come...
...contest provided each team with one computer, a packet of problems and five hours to solve them. Contestants are allowed to consult reference books of their choice...