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...does a company that boasts the ability to crack any system convince clients that it's safe to hire that firm? Stickley says the company's 50 employees have extensive background checks, supplied to clients if requested. Typically, employees are drawn from lines of work such as corporate security and computer engineering. But hackers need not apply. "We don't hire anyone who we believe was a former hacker," Stickley says. "Someone who can program and do network administration, you can teach them to hack. It's just too dangerous to put a hacker in a bank." Says Ferguson...
...After receiving yet another magazine cover with a white background, I have to say, How boring. Half the fun of getting the magazine is guessing what will be on the cover and then seeing what TIME has chosen. I understand the red and blue Venn diagram, but it looks terrible on my coffee table. I hope the Person of the Year cover will not be an abstract artist's caricature of somebody on a white background. If I want to see that kind of art, I'll go to a museum. Karen Walters Paradise, California...
...students practice math skills outside the classroom. Mastery is something that takes time and practice even for some of the most gifted students. The government should focus on ways to fund tutoring through schools or through local organization so that it is available to all students regardless of economic background. Instead of trying to come up with some revolutionary method of teaching math, we should simply learn from what Japan and other foreign countries are doing. Tutoring is best in small doses: not too much to overwhelm children, but enough so that they can develop genuine appreciation and enjoyment...
...didn’t give a damn about grades,” Fujimoto said. “I came from an immigrant family and had no background in a lot of the subjects I was studying. At high school, they never even taught us the Periodic Table, and there I was, competing with fellows from prep schools who had already taken these things. My A’s in science were balanced by my C’s in everything else, but graduating with honors meant nothing to me then...
...report then goes on to draw a devastating picture of the plight of Arab women - while thoughtfully examining the complex background to the issue, and offering some creative proposals for progress...