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...trespassing hacker is just one of the problems that can bring a computer system to its knees. Technicians were installing extra disk drives in an underground computer in Tulsa last May when they triggered a collapse of American Airlines' SABRE reservation system. Last September a Parisian computer creatively misread magnetic labels on 41,000 traffic-violation files and began charging delinquent motorists with crimes ranging from murder and drug trafficking to prostitution. A fire in a Tokyo utility tunnel several years ago wiped out circuits connecting Mitsubishi Bank's mainframe computers with branch offices, shutting down automated-teller machines across...
...current plans call for a fourstory hotel with 116 bedrooms and no restaurants or large function rooms, according to Director of Community Relations Marilyn Lyng O'Connell. Parking for the building would remain underground, with a vehicular entrance on Mass Ave., O'Connell said...
...codified in municipal regulations every bit as tough as the martial-law decree, and the independent student associations that mobilized demonstrators last spring remain outlawed. In any case, the dissident vanguard has been shattered as dozens of student leaders and their intellectual mentors have fled the country or gone underground; many more have been jailed or executed. In this atmosphere, disgruntled students and faculty alike have been lying low, stoically enduring hours of brain-numbing political re-education, until another opportunity for change presents itself...
Lowered standards for drug approval. Almost as soon as drugs are shown to be somewhat effective, the AIDS lobby pushes for their immediate release. To overcome bureaucratic delays, some activists have launched so-called underground testing of drugs that have been of questionable value. The lobby's greatest influence has been at the Food and Drug Administration. AZT, for example, won Government approval in less than four months, compared with a current average of two years. Says James Todd, senior vice president of the American Medical Association: "It's distorted all the traditional principles for drug approval. Penicillin couldn...
...cold are the loneliness and isolation in a land where phone lines are rare, mail is erratic, and penguins vastly outnumber people. Thousands of miles from friends and families, the residents of Antarctica are often confined to small areas around their bases. At many stations, living quarters are built underground so that they are protected from the wind. When storms force workers to stay indoors for days at a time, it amounts to their being trapped in a bunker...