Word: protocolic
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What is unusual about the High Speed Data Network (HSDN) is that every student connection is assigned a unique IP address. The "IP" notation hints at something greater, and indeed, "Internet Protocol" addresses allow us to pass the "toll booths" that separate our local highway from the superhighway...
...arms -- the ladies' honor often preserved by eleventh- hour plot devices (in the case of The Sheik, Valentino's character was revealed to be an Englishman in Middle Eastern drag). More recently, crudely comic variations on this theme have had Western women fending off oversexed petrosheiks in films like Protocol (1984) and The Jewel of the Nile...
...Lock: So many dignitaries, including Germany's Helmut Kohl and possibly Bill Clinton, are expected to pass though Chicago during the Cup that Rosalie Clark, city chief of protocol, says she has ordered a bunch of spare keys to the city: "I had only four left...
...despite the talk about statistical analysis and random populations, the book strays suspiciously from the standard scientific Protocol. Perhaps the cover, a lurid, close-up shot of a woman's navel surrounded by pink orchids, gives it away. Or the font used in the title lettering, highly reminiscent of a Harlequin romance novel. The interior of the book also betrays any serious scientific aims. Ogden's prose is casual, interrupted by sporadic fits of lyricism: "We allow the energy to reverberate in our consciousness and beyond." Now how exactly does that fit into a Venn diagram...
...Mack's "experiencers" has revealed to TIME that she was actually an undercover debunker who worked her way into Mack's confidence and rose high in the ranks of his subjects. She found that Mack's work was riddled with scientific irregularities; it lacked a formal research protocol as well as legally required consent forms that advise research subjects of potential risks. She also discovered that Mack billed the insurance companies of at least some patient-subjects for what he described as therapy sessions...