Word: unplugged
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...marketing experts have their own theories about why people want to sink so much money into the soil. A garden is certainly a nice thing to have, a place to unplug from a bruising, harried world into someplace ripe and unwired. For cocooning boomers, gardening presents the perfect stay-at-home hobby. It's environmentally correct, medically sound, and promises a nice return on investment. When a Bel Air, California, replica of Versailles, built for $8.1 million, sat on the soft housing market for years, the bank that repossessed it hired garden designer Eric Solberg...
...first rule of computer security is that there isn't any. The only way to keep a computer safe is to unplug the phone line, unplug the network connection, never use diskettes and to prohibit anyone from using it. A windowless room and a handful of deadbolt locks comes in handy...
...officials at the New York Stock Exchange; trading technology is advancing so rapidly that the Big Board could be bypassed by such new high-tech systems as the Arizona Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ and now Globex. The N.Y.S.E. petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission to slow down, if not unplug, some of the networks. Says William Donaldson, chairman of the N.Y.S.E.: "To our competitors, we're the big monster; and it's fun to zap the monster...
...since Primo Carnera retired. It's a sham and a shuck, lacking the je ne sais quoi of monster-truck racing and the visual appeal of a carton of eggs falling off the kitchen counter. Nobody cares except a couple dozen middle-aged sports editors. If those guys would unplug the publicity tubes...
...Electric blankets. They lie right on top of the body for hours at a time. It's a good idea to warm the bed and then unplug the blanket before going to sleep -- or better still, get a quilt instead...