Word: tap
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...only the most recent addition to Harvard’s considerable slate of benefits. The majority of University employees, from workers at the Adams House dining hall to security guards at Harvard’s art museums, are entitled to take Extension School courses through the Tuition Assistance Plan (TAP). The plan allows employees who put in at least half-time at Harvard to take a course every semester for only $40. The educational benefits that Harvard employees receive are matched by their health coverage. Workers are given the choice between 9 health plans, including HMOs like Harvard Pilgrim Health...
...student hackers, the weakness of Blackboard systems arises from the reliance on physical rather than electronic security: transaction information travels unencrypted between card-swipe terminals and servers. According to the hackers, the wiring that carries this information is often easily accessible, making it very easy to tap into the system. A hacker can then record and emulate the signals transmitted when a person uses the system to make a purchase or to add money to their balance, opening up a wide range of possibilities for exploitation of the system...
...former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin - have earned Abu Mazen considerable respect in foreign capitals, he has no mass support base of his own among Palestinians. The latest opinion survey published by a respected Palestinian polling organization showed that while some 60 percent of Palestinians supported the move to tap Abu Mazen as prime minister, only 3 percent identified Abu Mazen as their Palestinian leader of choice - compared with 35 percent for Arafat, 20 percent for imprisoned intifada leader Marwan Barghouti and 15 percent for Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Arafat had hoped that Abu Mazen's domestic political weakness...
...Theater in New York. We didn't put our real names on the bill because we figured, Everybody knows. We get up onstage, and literally about 20 seconds in, they're being really mean and trying to get us off the stage--so we can come back as Spinal Tap...
...them are using slow-as-mud 56K modems via standard phone lines. The advantage of untethering office workers is relatively unproved (Won't they just instant message one another during meetings?), but even the most technophobic CEO can imagine the benefit of her top salesman's being able to tap into the database minutes before he sits down with a client--and place his order immediately afterward. "Intuitively, I felt there was going to be a market for this in the business community," says Ted Schell, a venture capitalist with Apax Partners in New York City, one of the backers...