Word: tap
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Clearly it was time to bring out the big guns. The two leading software tools are Spam Buster contactplus.com/spam and SpamKiller spamkiller.com) Both tap quietly into your e-mail server every few minutes to check new messages against a blacklist of known spammers and subject lines. I was impressed by the range of their databases. This is what my Eudora filters would have looked like had I played cat and mouse for a few more centuries...
Beijing's choicest cocktail crowd gathers on nearby Xingfu Cun Zhong Lu, at the Neo Lounge, which is minimalist, marble-topped and features a large Buddha stoically surrounded by champagne bottles. All your favorite Western poisons are available. Also on tap: the deafening cacophony of bright young things, local and foreign, that is part of the scene from Tokyo to Toronto. To be part of it, call (86-10) 6416-5615. Too tame? Pop around another corner to Club Vogue, on Gongti Dong Lu, where the state-of-the-art sound system has channeled the dubby deckwork of some...
...that Koizumi cannot depend on the smoke and mirrors favored by his predecessors. For most of the past decade, Japan has stuck like rust to its failed formula for growth, shoveling public funds into ludicrous projects like unneeded dams and highways to nowhere. Not only did the government tap tax revenues for these projects, but also pensions and the $10 trillion in personal savings kept in accounts at the post office. Japanese have had enough of that. A citizens group in Shizuoka, 200-km south of Tokyo, recently collected 270,000 signatures on a petition against a $1.6 billion...
...thousand wells have been drilled into the coal beds of the basin, most of them in the past two years, to tap methane-gas reserves estimated at 25 trillion cu. ft.--the equivalent of a year's consumption for the entire U.S. Nearly 100 wells are being drilled each week, and the gas companies say the entire 8 million-acre basin could have 50,000 to 100,000 producing wells before they are finished...
...finish his first term or declines to run for re-election. Would Bush go with Colin Powell--a bold move that would infuriate the right but help draw moderates and African-Americans into the G.O.P.? With the Senate closely divided, the White House would surely be loath to tap one of the 49 G.O.P. members...