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Ordinary conductivity, the measure of a material's ability to transmit electrical current, is determined by events that take place at the atomic level. Atoms consist of a tiny dense nucleus that contains positively charged protons and chargeless neutrons. Around the nucleus whirl the negatively charged electrons, residing in shells with shapes determined by the electrons' energy levels...
Founded around 1915, the wireless club takes pride in being the first in the country, says President Richard G. Listerud '87. The approximately 15 club members use radios kept in a "club shack" at the Office of Career Services to transmit messages around the globe...
Microphone-transmitters these days can be made about the size of a pinhead and embedded anywhere (or everywhere) in a wall, ceiling, chair or a person's clothing. Some do not need wires to transmit; they send out microwave signals that can be read by equipment outside the building. They can be turned on and off by remote control, or set to be activated by heat, radiation, the vibrations of a voice or pressure. A bug in a chair might turn itself on when someone sits down...
Newspaper office computers are frequent targets for prying. One reason: news organizations make extensive use of open telephone lines to transmit and receive electronic messages. In addition, notes Geoffrey Stokes, press columnist for New York City's Village Voice, "We are all professional snoops." Stokes' columns frequently contain items leaked to him from the computers of the large New York dailies. Last year he gleefully printed a memo purloined from the New York Times revealing that Arthur Gelb, one of that paper's top editors, asked a Paris reporter to investigate the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident on Russian...
...chief advantage of ISDN, especially for businesses, is that it enables phone users to transmit voices, video images and computer data along the same line simultaneously. In analog systems, separate lines are required for each of these functions. But with ISDN, callers can easily exchange documents, see each other and talk all at the same time. Moreover, ISDN will enable otherwise incompatible computer systems to communicate with one another. And greater amounts of data can be transmitted much more rapidly through ISDN than with analog equipment...