Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardline approach may work for now in China, though, Beijing's leaders may find that building an electronic great wall around Hong Kong will be an impossible feat. The virtual medium looks like Hong Kong's most powerful protection for free speech, since whatever China may do to plug the holes in the new wall by tightening its grip on Hong Kong's 49 ISPs, the Internet by nature is virtually unpoliceable. If pressed, Hong Kong's controversial web sites can merely move to the unregulated foreign web services. And sooner or later, Internet users deep in the mainland...
...shorter leash." The leadership has added to its leverage by setting aside much of the money Burton requested for his committee in a "reserve fund." "We only gave him money for this year," says a leadership aide. "That way, if he tanks, we can pull the plug...
...have been the most expensive pizza-delivery system ever invented. Last week media giant Time Warner (TIME's parent company) announced that it was pulling the plug on its ambitious two-way cable-TV project, the Full Service Network, launched in Orlando, Fla., in 1994. At that time then ceo Gerald Levin predicted FSN would be "a medium for providing people with unprecedented access to information and entertainment." With just a remote, subscribers could scan countless TV channels, bring up movies on demand, shop at home or order a pizza...
...better solution for protecting your data is to purchase a dedicated tape back-up drive for you Mac or PC, which can store the entire contents of your hard disk. These drives install easily into your computer or plug into the back of it. They use special tapes to store from 120 Mb or two gigabytes worth of files...
...years at least, but a report in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association should help women make informed decisions. Dr. Nananda Col and her colleagues at the New England Medical Center in Boston have developed a computer model that lets women plug in their own history and come up with a personal risk assessment. A questionnaire based on the model will appear this summer in Col's book, A Woman Doctor's Guide to Hormone Therapy: How to Choose What's Right for You, to be published by Tatnuck Bookseller Press...