Word: techs
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Dmitri Polyakov: The most important CIA source whom Ames betrayed was Polyakov, the legendary top hat. So valuable was Polyakov, a general in Soviet military intelligence, that the CIA provided him with special high-tech equipment that it reserved for its most important agents. He was, for example, given a high-speed "burst" transmitter and a clock for his Moscow apartment that lit up in response to a radio signal to inform him that a dead drop, or hiding place, had been cleared by the CIA. Over the years, Polyakov provided the CIA with data on Soviet strategic missiles, antitank...
...month by attending satellite downlinks of "Christian Coalition Live," an hour of specific instruction on political organizing at which Reed himself plays host. The broadcasts feature target lists of lawmakers to contact regarding specific legislation. More than 200 conservative evangelical churches serve as the meeting places for these high-tech gatherings; the Coalition hopes to have 1,000 downlink sites by year...
...accident that Conner, now 52, has survived six America's Cups in two decades, spurred the transformation of the event into a high-tech-and highly commercialized-business, and dominated his sport as much as any athlete in history. "Dennis is totally focused on winning," says John Marshall, who was once the head of Conner's design team but is now the chief of a rival syndicate. "If people are in the way, he'll walk over them or kick them out of the way. The humane side is not there, but he's a good leader and an extremely...
...Hyman, each new repetition of a paranormal tale, even when related with a skeptical tone, "makes it more and more believable." Scientists are worried, too, that the proliferation of paranormal TV is contributing to the public's scientific illiteracy, which they regard as a national liability in a high-tech age. "If you are awash in lost continents and channeling and ufos," says astronomer Carl Sagan, "you may not have intellectual room for the findings of science...
Matt Howitt is correct ("Tech Talk," Apr. 26) in noting that preemptive multitasking "has existed for a long time," but he omits mentioning IBM's Time Sharing System (TSS) Model 360/67, which used a multitask environment, and paging of memory to create virtual memory. It too was created in the 1960s...