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...colleges, including Harvard. We applaud Harvard for offering unprecedented financial support to low-income students, helping many first-generation college students, including those from at-risk communities. However, as evidenced by significant research and a recent article in the Boston Globe, the inclination to believe that providing access and financial assistance is enough is both wrong and dangerous. One of us broached this issue with President Drew G. Faust when she visited Los Angeles last year. Her response implied that financial assistance and current programs were all that these students needed...
...detect "patterns of life analyses," or timelines of movements and meetings in any given area. But the drones' utility is dramatically enhanced when analysts know exactly what they're looking for and where. For that, there's nothing better than human intelligence. Reports from Waziristan suggest the CIA has access to a network of spies. Tribesmen have told TIME of agents who drop microchips (locally known as patrai) near targets; the drones can lock onto these to guide their missiles or bombs with pinpoint precision. But it has proved difficult to verify these claims of human assets and their homing...
...resident female, was always in charge of making the tea for the others. Though McNeal thought she could find employment in the sciences, almost no recruiters visited Radcliffe’s campus. “They would come to Harvard, but we didn’t have access to it,” she said.She said that especially in the sciences—where the proportions of females were so small—it wasn’t worth the recruiters’ time to draft from a pool of only a handful of females. According to Sabath, there...
President Obama's initiative will doubtlessly boost the fight against computer crime, but his announcement is just a start. The cyber czar has not been named, and it remains to be seen how much budget authority or access to the Oval Office the role will include. The government's past efforts to protect computer systems have been bogged down in bureaucratic turf battles, but analysts hope the President's attention will mark a new era in digital security - before it's too late. As former Air Force computer-crime fighter John Wheeler told the Los Angeles Times, "We want...
...Tops Guesthouse, described by our travel editor as basic but comfy (she recommends booking the Sunrise or Sunset suite, for $98). All rooms are sparkling clean and have air-conditioning, a ceiling fan, a refrigerator and cable TV, and most have private baths. The two "luxury" suites have Internet access. There are bicycles available, plus a sandy front courtyard with hammocks and lounge chairs. The friendly proprietor, Doris, will tell you everything you need to know about the island, from the best breakfast spot to the best dive shop (one of the main reasons people come to Belize's cayes...