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...about time the U.S. Navy went coed on its combat ships. Twenty years ago, I was one of the first five women to graduate from radio-relay school, and I found there was a lot of confusion. I had to ask for a toolbox that was issued automatically to everyone else. When the men in my shop realized I was fully prepared to get dirty and I could crawl under a truck, climb an antenna and wade in the mud without melting, I was no longer a liability but an asset. My assignments from 1974 to 1980 were a learning...
...shop on the computer networks, those networks-and the telecommunications systems that carry their traffic-are turning out to be terminally insecure. One of the things Mitnick is believed to have stolen from Shimomura's computer is a set of utility programs-the electronic equivalent of a locksmith's toolbox-that would make, in the hands of a determined hacker, a potent set of burglar's tools. Given the speed with which such programs can be duplicated and transmitted, it must now be assumed that they have been distributed widely throughout the computer underground...
...story involves Mr. Baker abducting thefemale student at gunpoint and taking her to asecluded place off Route 23 in Ann Arbor,"Stejskal said in the affidavit. "He tells her todisrobe, to take a toolbox from his car and thenuses the tools to torture...
Tucked away in a corner gallery of the Fogg Art Museum there lies a fascinating and somewhat quirky collection of...well, things. Some of them can be called "art objects," and others might seem more appropriate in a toolbox. The exhibition intended to bring to the viewers' attention the various work that objects carry out, be it making things or simply being made...
Like many illegal Irish, Colm began by working in the building trades as a "J.F.K. carpenter," as the new Irish arrivals at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport were called. "As soon as you get off the plane they hand you a toolbox and you go to work." He has also moonlighted as a fiacre driver in Central Park and a boxer in Atlantic City, New Jersey, although his real ambition is someday to be a cop or fireman...