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...Center at the Fire Department headquarters near Canaday Hall will be supplemented by the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), a special gathering of city department heads that usually convenes when natural disasters threaten the city...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City's 'Mission Critical' System Ready for Y2K | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

House Masters and students were initially worried that universal access would allow strangers to enter Houses and threaten the security of students...

Author: By Sarah A. Dolgonos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: All Houses Will Adopt Universal Card Access | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...some, those three letters immediately conjure images of James Bond swerving in his flashy BMW, chasing perpetrators of evil who threaten the lives of millions worldwide. Amidst this glorified picture drawn by Hollywood, we must take a step back and scrutinize our nation's premier spy agency. You see, with the Agency's current recruiting practices and fierce competition from the private sector, chances are good that our friend Mr. Bond may well rather be "Bond, Investment Banker Bond," or better yet, "Bond, CEO, JamesBond.Com...

Author: By Steve W. Chung, | Title: CIA Policies Discourage Top Recruits | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...lander and an obiter craft to Mars every 26 months. The failure of another $100 million probe just months after the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost as a result of the now-infamous metric mixup could mean an entire rethinking of NASA's "faster, better, cheaper" strategy, and threaten congressional support for the whole Mars project. Already the criticisms have begun: That scientists were lulled by the easy success of the Pathfinder mission into launching a much less adaptable probe that needed everything to go just right in order to succeed. But the agency isn't conceding anything yet. "When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mars Lander, Phone Home... Please | 12/5/1999 | See Source »

...business basis." While nongovernmental organizations and even some governments are raising some of those issues inside the talks, activists will maintain a steady barrage of protests throughout the week. While headline-grabbing anarchic actions at the fringes - such as the trashing of a McDonald's outlet on Monday - threaten to disrupt and distort the underlying cautionary message being borne by the WTO's naysayers, the very scale of the street protests meant that it was anything but business as usual on Day 1 of the Seattle summit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protests Could Drown Out Real Anti-WTO Message | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

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