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Investigating the illegal wiretapping of a Law School professor's office phone, officials there said yesterday that they have no record of anyone breaking into his office building in recent months and that the tap could have been installed easily during working hours...
...School security officials said there was no evidence of either a break-in or reports of suspicious individuals in the building during the last eight months, which telecommunications experts say is the period during which the tap was placed...
...investigator did not find any listening device attached to the wire, but he told The Globe that the transmitter could have been removed in the two days after the secretaries became suspicious and before the investigation began. The expert, whose name was not given in the article, estimated the tap was on the phonefrom two to eight months...
...will most other small firms. Unless the stock market recovers, young companies may have to go back to the venture capitalists that gave them seed money in the first place. But that source may be harder to tap, since venture capitalists generally make their investments in hopes of making a killing when the firm goes public. So whatever short-run damage the market crash produces, it poses an even more serious long-term threat: a slowdown in the growth of small companies and the rate of innovation...
Today, whether it is New Amsterdam in New York City, Catamount Amber in Vermont, Abita in Louisiana, Lair Dog at the Tap & Growler in Chicago, Reinheitsgebot in Plano, Texas, or one of the 20 regional brews on tap at Cooper's Ale House in Seattle, the appeal of locally brewed beer is akin to that of regional cheeses, breads and homegrown vegetables. "It's the fascination with something unique and handcrafted," says Shelby Meyer, who writes a newsletter for a home-brewers' club...