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...defenses of a voting machine made by Diebold, a major manufacturer of such devices. Felten's team found three ways to insert into the machine rogue programs that allowed them to redistribute votes that had already been cast. In one instance, the testers had to take the machine apart with a screwdriver--an act likely to draw the attention of poll workers. But in two others, they were able to quickly infect the device with a standard memory-access card in which they had installed a preprogrammed chip. Other computer scientists have also breached electronic voting machines. Congressman Vernon Ehlers...
...affordable convertible. Its standout feature is a retractable hard-top, which doubles as a sun-roof. Flip a switch and in 25 seconds, it automatically stows in the rear. Watching this shape-changing act is worth the price of admission; the rear deck opens, the roof panels split apart, stack atop each other and neatly fold away. If you engage this feature in a parking lot, be prepared to discuss it with the gawking onlookers...
...while hardly poor, he takes personal modesty seriously. Tall, guarded and retaining the outsider's accent he picked up in an earlier life as a trainee architect in the U.S., he is famously private. He lives with his two German shepherds, Tito and Tango, in the same second-floor apartment in Bombay that he has kept for 20 years. He is one floor below his stepmother, and neighbors say they have never known him to throw a party. His one indulgence, apart from his dogs - he is frequently spotted muddying his pinstripes as he plays with them in a park...
...shifted in the third game, as the Crimson improved its hitting percentage and blocking against the Big Red front line to take the game 30-24.However, the Crimson slipped in the fourth game and Cornell roared to a 30-17 victory to take the match.“We fell apart in the fourth game because we couldn’t stay in our system,” Mahon said, also pointing out the numerous errors in the final frame.HARVARD 3, COLUMBIA 2The lights of the Big Apple inspired great play on Friday night, as the Crimson got enormous efforts from...
Yunus’ strategy of mutual benefit sets him apart from the Nobel laureates before him who labored to address poverty. He has been both praised and criticized for finding a method that not only helps the poor but also allows the financial markets to tap into the 86 percent of the globe’s population that has had little or no access to bank loans. Yunus’ prize honors not just his specific strategy, however, but also his impulse to redefine how we look at the problem of global poverty. Microfinance demonstrates that what matters...