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...second-straight night Saturday, Harvard was bit by the penalty bug...
...thousands of dollars for the right to use three or four lines of their song or show a five-second clip of their television show. I’m going to assume you are not one of these artists, but it’s still essential to be proactive. Bug your advisers and professors and make them ask about acquiring additional control over their publications. Read about Creative Commons and apply it everywhere it can be applied. At best, this careful forethought will open the floodgates to a whole new wealth of freely available educational material in the very near...
...plans to spy on U.N. Security Council members opposed to the Iraq war. Then former Cabinet Minister Clare Short, who resigned in protest after the fall of Baghdad and has been a thorn in Blair's side ever since, declared on a bbc radio program that British spies had bugged the office of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. She said that she had read transcripts of conversations conducted there. Various politicians and commentators were predictably shocked. A Blair press conference was dominated by questions about whether this had happened and, if so, whether it was legal and/or wise. He wouldn...
...routing table for the Internet has grown larger and larger and we reached a size-related bug,” Davis said. “What it really comes down to was a heretofore unknown, very complicated problem...
...chickens, then the chances of jumping to human beings, usually through contact with chicken feces, rise considerably. In humans, the virus is more likely to swap proteins with a human influenza virus and acquire greater infectiousness and enhanced pathogenicity. The result, researchers fear, could be a highly contagious flu bug with a mortality rate of one in three. The likelihood of such a shape shift is hard to quantify, but it is believed that previous pandemics, in 1918 and in 1968, were the result of this sort of gene swapping among different viral strains...