Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lecture proceeded, it became even more theoretical, leaving many people, like Robert G. Bieshaar, a visitor from Germany, groping for answers...
...Federal Trade Commission uncovered the brazen scheme. It worked like this: first, according to the FTC, the perpetrators replicated hundreds of legitimate websites, ranging from the Japanese Friendship Garden to the Harvard Law Review. By changing a single line of hidden software code, the culprits then ensured that any visitor calling up these pages would automatically be shunted to their porn site. Once there, the visitors often could not leave: "mousetrapped," with their computers' "back" and "close" commands disabled. Users were thus caught in what the FTC called "an unavoidable, seemingly endless loop" of pornography. Motive for the scam...
...itself (Boston Park Rangers, 1010 Mass. Ave.; 635-7383; tours leave from various sites in the city and a schedule is available at the information center in the Boston Common; T: Park St.; from July through November, a free 90-minute tour of the Freedom Trail leaves from the Visitor Center on Saturday...
...dramatic shift in policies last semester, five of the eight all-male clubs now ban guests. The other three clubs examined their visitor policies and strengthened their commitment to limiting the number of non-members in the clubhouses...
...brain surgery to cure severe epilepsy. The operation cured his epilepsy, but removing parts of his brain's temporal lobes, including a structure called the hippocampus, destroyed his ability to form new memories. H.M., who is still alive, has a reasonably good short-term memory. Once introduced to a visitor, he will remember the person's name and other information while a conversation lasts. But if the visitor leaves and returns, H.M. has no memory whatsoever of having met the person. In fact, H.M. has no permanent memory of anything that happened after his surgery...