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...Bicker code" defines "unethical practices" such as pre-Bicker beer parties and mailing Christmas greetings to promising sophomores...
Each one of these dots can hold what computer men call a "bit" (short for binary digit) of information. If charged, it is considered a "one"; if uncharged, it is a "zero." By arranging ones and zeros in a code, a string of numbers, letters or words can be stored in dot form (2,500 bits is the equivalent of 69 words). When the crystal has heard its lesson once, it remembers for a week or more...
After the mass needling was over, small teams of experts stayed in each area and studied new cases of polio. If the victim was one of the inoculated children, they recorded the code number of the syringe with which he had been inoculated. Then the doctors followed the case to see whether the child's illness developed to the paralytic stage. If so, they noted how severe the paralysis was, and how long it lasted...
...Sardinia, live with banditry as they live with poverty-helplessly, fearfully and always. Orgosolo's bandits often slip into town from their hiding places in the mountains to spend a night with their wives and children, but the villagers who recognize them stay mum, for the bandit code called omerta exacts a heavy penalty from the informer, whether bandit or honest...
Fairy Tales & a Bullet. But the code of omertà is not repealed with a bandit's capture. The Liandru band still lurked in the mountains, and the list still stood, hidden by whitewash, on the church wall. Maddalena Liandru herself was shot down on her way to visit her husband in jail soon after his capture. Her sister's lover, Salvatore Patteri, whose sudden affluence may or may not have come from a 2,000,000-lire reward paid for Liandru, was killed a short time later as he staggered home from a drunken spending spree...