1.   A firewall basically opens the ports for permissible types of data, like Web pages, and closes the others.

2.   But China, which wants the main island of Taiwan to open its ports to the mainland, merely sniffed.

3.   File and Printer Sharing opens a port on your machine that is especially popular among hackers.

4.   Sometimes you can open the port by sticking a straightened paper clip into the hole.

5.   Ten days after it first threatened to ban Japanese ship lines from U.S. ports, an independent maritime panel again delayed action on agreement to open Japanese ports.

6.   The Celestial Empire was humbled, forced to open five ports to foreign traders and to permit a British colony at Hong Kong.

7.   The government has made no decision on its further use and the United States has suggested that the strategically located deep-water port be opened to warships of all countries.

8.   China permits cross-strait shipping to operate out of the minor ports of Fuzhou and Xiamen, but Taiwanese shippers are pressing for more ports to be opened.

9.   Deliveries are expected to accelerate as the isolated North has agreed to open more ports along its east and west coasts to Southern relief ships.

10.   Late last month Uzbek officials opened the port at Termez to allow barges to ship aid across the Amu-Darya River that marks the border.