Word: screening
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Although women are excluded from Skulls membership (as they are from our own Harvard final clubs) they are welcome to sit quietly and look pretty and later, off-screen, satiate the sexual appetite of their male counterparts. This simply does not reflect reality outside cloistered Ivy League campuses or beyond the doors of these all-male societies, in the 21st century...
Kolakowski, an investigator for the Wayne County sheriff's department in Detroit, went online with the screen name Melissa83 about a year ago as bait for pedophiles who, in Detroit as elsewhere, tend to prey on naive, rebellious kids from broken homes. But Melissa is only one of the alter egos Kolakowski has invented. Some days he masquerades online as a teenage boy looking for an assault rifle, or a sports junkie betting on the Wolverines, or an old dude with erectile dysfunction shopping for a quick Viagra...
Maybe you'd like to try tracking down E.T. yourself? If you have a PC or Mac that sits idle at least a few hours a day, you can join the 1.7 million people who have downloaded SETI@home, a free screen saver (available at setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu that uses your computer's downtime to help sort through the reams of noisy static gathered by radio telescopes. The odds of pulling a Jodie Foster (who snared the elusive extraterrestrial signal in the 1997 sci-fi flick Contact) are a zillion to one. But if you fail--or even if you succeed--nobody...
Imagine this scene from the future. You are staring at a screen flickering with snow. Scientists have hidden one of two patterns in the dots, and eventually you spot one. But you don't have to tell the scientists what you are seeing; they already know...
...market for a pocket-size Web-browsing phone. The battery lasts three days and recharges in a few hours. The navigation, while not as elegant as on my wife's bulkier Nokia, is fine. And the Web, even when viewed on the phone's postage-stamp-size screen, is surprisingly readable. I can go to any site, read the text and bookmark it for later. For instance, on the train, I visit the site formerly known as Media Gossip at the touch of a button...