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...TOURISTY SITE: For serenity and beauty away from the crowds, take a packet of London's many newspapers to Mount Street Gardens and enjoy a respite on one of the wooden benches. The gardens are off the tourist trail in the tony Mayfair section, nestled behind Mount Street, South Audley and Farm Street...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: london | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

...intruder had set up a "packet sniffer"--a network tool that monitors all the traffic of a local network. This particular "sniffer" had access to only a small section of the Sever Hall building, not the entire Harvard network...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intruder Breaks Into Sever Hall Network | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

Balkin's experiments will figure out whether the gum is a good way to keep soldiers up while they are in battle. Amurol suspects its gum might taste good enough for guys who eat powdered coffee straight from the packet. The Amurol marketers are not overly ambitious people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stick of Joe | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...then, that the leafy tranquillity of Sterling's well-appointed Austin, Texas, home is shattered only by his two-year-old daughter Laura's careening through the living room like a stray electron? (Dad prefers "like a misrouted Internet packet.") "I like starting with a set of initial conditions and just extrapolating," he says. In this case, the initial conditions came courtesy of Mother Russia, whose meltdown Sterling covered for Wired back in 1993. "I was watching a huge 20th century superpower fall apart at the seams," he says. Extrapolating from Moscow to the U.S. was a simple matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberpunk Spinmeister | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...Lowell House mailroom recently received numerous copies of a packet detailing Wishnatsky's religious beliefs, including a cover letter from Wishnatsky directed specifically at residents of Lowell House, his residence from...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Alum Promotes Christianity, Sexual Purity in Mailing to Lowell House | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

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