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...even more pressing. In particular, state and federal legislators must craft a flexible legal framework for dealing with data security, especially as the tools available to insurance companies and other interested observers become increasingly complex and powerful. According to Dr. Alex Pentland, a researcher at the Media Lab, the basics of privacy regulation should be based on the fundamentals of English common law. We agree with Dr. Pentland’s basic ideas: that an individual possesses his or her own online data, has the right to control data collection by any interested observer, and also has the right...
...forward plans to safeguard the expected billions of dollars in oil revenues which should start to flow into the country's coffers after 2010. In October, Akufo-Addo said he planned to set up an "oil fund" to invest revenues in developing the country's education, health-care and basic infrastructure. Mills went further, calling for the formation of an "independent authority which will account for the oil resource." "We don't want it to be a curse," he said. That curse, or resource curse, as economists call it, describes a tendency for countries with abundant natural resources...
...possible to this Elizabethan genius of theater. It’s a good thing that the book focuses on these better known works, as a lack of familiarity with one or more of the plays will diminish the amount of insight that one can glean. Knowing at least the basic plot proves necessary for full appreciation of Garber’s Shakespearian wisdom. But having read all the plays is not necessary; just about anyone would possess enough knowledge of the basic plot of “Romeo and Juliet” to appreciate that chapter. And this...
...khaki were everywhere around Mumbai after the attacks, and 16 of them lost their lives in the blasts and gunfire, but their leaders failed to fulfill one of their basic functions: to secure calm and order in a crisis. Police and army leaders gave out little information to the public, and Mumbai's police chief, Hasan Gafoor, gave his first press conference to the hundreds of journalists gathered in Mumbai on Dec. 2, six days after the attacks. In the absence of any official line, sensational cable-television broadcasts and newspapers were full of anonymous police sources giving out conflicting...
...Waldau advocates an incremental approach. For over a decade, he’s served as the Vice-President of the Great Apes Project, a global coalition pushing for basic legal rights for chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. The campaign hopes to establish legal rights to life, liberty, and freedom from torture for our closest evolutionary cousins; many hope these rights could then be extended to other animals...