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...earlier version of the Dec. 16 news article "Cyber Safety Expert Visits" incorrectly attributed quotes to Danah Boyd—a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a fellow at the Berkman Center—instead of another speaker at the event. Boyd did not say that Boston has been working on a cyber-safety project with funding from Microsoft. The article has been changed to reflect this inaccuracy...
...content for this workshop evolved out of feedback from HGWISE members. People felt like being a woman was a detriment when they went into interviews.” said Erin E. Boyd, a graduate student in physics and treasurer of HGWISE, “We want to make it clear that being a woman is not a detriment...
...terror through random sniper fire. People were killed cutting grass, pumping gas, going shopping, walking to school. Death itself, with hood and scythe, could not have been more random, more remorseless, more unnerving. Or more pointless. When at last the snipers--John Allen Muhammad and his juvenile accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo--were caught, they had so little reason for murder that they hardly even tried to explain themselves. There was the older man's anger, the younger man's loneliness, a quarter-baked extortion plot. Late on Nov. 10, in a Virginia prison, it was Muhammad who paid the final...
...North Carolina An Alleged Jihad, Made In America His neighbors knew Daniel Boyd as a friendly drywall contractor devoted to his family. But prosecutors in North Carolina depict the 39-year-old as a would-be terrorist bent on murder abroad. Boyd, a U.S.-born convert to Islam, and seven other men were accused of stockpiling weapons and training for "violent jihad" overseas. The accused--all but one of whom are U.S. citizens--include two of Boyd's sons. Authorities say Boyd, the alleged ringleader, received terrorism training in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he fought against the Soviets 20 years...
...sipping a Pepsi and the next thing I knew I was in jail." " - Daniel Boyd, to a Washington Post reporter in 1991 before the Pakistani Supreme Court overturned his bank robbery conviction (Washington Post...