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...ground stations. The National Security Agency's supercomputers can sort through intercepted phone calls with lightning speed. Even clandestine agents overseas can have instant access to CIA officials in the U.S. by using cellular phones. But until last year, the White House had to depend on the "pizza truck " for all this intelligence--even during a fast-breaking crisis. And the pizza truck--the agency's nickname for the delivery van bearing secret reports from the CIA's Langley, Virginia, headquarters--often became snarled in downtown Washington traffic...
University Hall. Just because it's gray, dreary and institutional-looking doesn't mean it has to have a gray, dreary and institutional-sounding name. Its abbreviation is the name of rent-a-truck company. What better argument could be made for a new identity...
...toiler? Has he been marginalized by a phallocentric culture, or empowered by his decision not to penetrate The Barn's confines? One is reminded of the opening credits of "What's Happenin' Now?" where we see Rerun, an androgyne clearly alineated from patriarchal norms, run after the phallus/ truck, always wanting, but never, never having...
Even the loading docks accessible by truck fromKirkland Street, are recessed behind a wall...
...their world is still expanding,'' says Mary Furlong, who founded the San Francisco-based SeniorNet in 1986. ``They allow you to form new friendships and become more intellectually mobile.'' For Rick and Rita Hanson, SeniorNet has led to much more than intellectual mobility. In September 1993 the former truck mechanic and his wife traded in their Bellingham, Massachusetts, house for a 28-ft.-long mobile home and embarked on a nationwide tour. ``We wouldn't have considered this trip if it weren't for SeniorNet,'' says 59-year-old Rick. ``If one of us got ill, what would the other...