Word: coding
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...tropical sky, night falls almost instantly, and the navigational instruments now cast a greenish glow around the skipper. A fixed-wing "Islander" heads back to base at Horn Island as a Coastwatch helicopter (or "helo") code-named Lima 51 flies in to assist in the search; a forward-looking infra-red (flir) detection system in the helo's nose checks out the hides that have been cut in the mangroves around the island. No luck. Returning to base, the helo calls in to report that it's clocked a vessel 10 nautical mi. away, at 108 degrees. There's restrained...
...hand. Luis does so. Teacher Darias explains that coverage depends on topography, wind and the whistler's lungs: "In a valley, the Silbo can be heard 2,500 m away." The youngsters at Lomada School are proud of their tradition, which has the advantage of being a secret code. And Maria of the mobile says it still has practical uses. "Say I'm at my grandmother's house and she wants my grandad to bring her some parsley when he returns from their plot 200 m away. I can stand at the door and tell him." Fuio! They...
Howard Dinin is launching a quarterly magazine late this summer, entitled 02138: Dispatches to and from the world’s most opinionated zip code. Unlike Kim’s 02138, Dinin said his magazine will not be geared to Harvard alums...
With no clear agreement to which publication the name belongs, both Kim and Dinin are hoping the other goes out of business, and that the survivor can lay sole claim to the zip code...
...overtaking lane, declining to move into the vacant left lane, as he drove out of sight. Typical, she thought: the maverick, disregarding the rules. She wasn't 100% sure it was Latham, although it sounds plausible. But until Latham outs himself over a breach of the motorists' code, I'm inclined to think it was someone else, another urban-fringe myth. Besides, why would a man who could be Australia's next Prime Minister be driving? Isn't he entitled to a Commonwealth car and driver? Where was his campaign bus, the Opportunity Express...