Word: scanned
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...borne aloft on the shoulders of six comrades dressed in camouflage uniforms and green berets. Dozens of armed Hizballah militants march alongside, draped in green webbing heavy with ammunition pouches, grenades and walkie-talkies. They carry their rifles at chest height, baseball caps shading their grim faces as they scan the surrounding area for potential trouble. Jaafar was killed two days earlier - wounded by a sniper and executed with a bullet in the head, according to residents -during heavy clashes between Hizballah and the Druze followers of Walid Jumblatt, an arch-critic of the Shi'ite party, in the hills...
...days, reporters in China were so tightly controlled in where they could go and whom they could talk to that they were often forced to scan the pages of the state media for subtle hints of change in official policy. Nowadays, under special rules enacted ahead of the Beijing Olympics, journalists are theoretically free to roam China and interview anyone. Except of course for Tibet and its bordering regions. Since the bloody anti-Chinese protests of March 10-16, reporters have once again been barred from Tibet and had to fall back on scanning the People's Daily and other...
From the era of gunboat diplomacy to today's scan-and-go turnstiles, Hong Kong has always offered foreigners the most convenient passage to the Chinese mainland. Since Hong Kong's return to China from Britain in 1997, entry to the mainland has become even easier and faster-visas are processed with great speed and little hassle, making entry points into Shenzhen, the booming megalopolis adjacent to Hong Kong, among the busiest in the world. But all this has been upset in recent weeks: the Chinese government has mysteriously stopped issuing multiple-entry visas-an essential tool for Hong Kong...
...ensure they're not carrying flash drives or laptops, according to CEO Liam Brown. Computers don't have disc drives, usable usb ports or CD burners, and most can't print. Attorneys work for a specific client in areas called dedicated delivery centers, which are accessible via a fingerprint scan and monitored by cameras. Each room can hold up to 36 terminals--many of them with dual screens. The company never stores data locally. Rather, the lawyers work directly on the client's server and only over a secure line or via the Internet. The space becomes a "virtual extension...
...server may have compromised 10,000 sets of personal information from applicants and students, including 6,600 Social Security numbers and 500 Harvard ID numbers, the University said yesterday. According to the University’s Chief Information Officer Daniel D. Moriarty, when Harvard realized after a preliminary scan of the disseminated information that “the same methods that the hacker used could have exposed other data,” they began cataloguing the rest of the server’s contents. “Regrettably, that’s when we found this sensitive information...