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...bulk of the strikes involved what are known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks, in which computers flood targeted websites with an overwhelming number of requests for information, bringing the sites' underlying networks of servers and routers to a standstill. The scope and coordination were staggering. At the peak of activity on May 10, hundreds of thousands of computers from around the world (likely tricked by malicious downloaded software) were bombarding Estonian targets with thousands of times the normal flow of data...
...more for food, become much more protectionist or both. If the country isn't ready to take those steps, here's an apostasy being whispered by some economists: get rid of large-scale agriculture altogether. England did it and is content to buy the bulk of its food from foreign producers. Less food security, perhaps, but also less need for guest workers. It's a difficult discussion in the U.S., a country that has become addicted to cheap labor. But one thing is certain in North Carolina: the immigration solution of the future isn't even working today...
...ongoing search for new Currier House masters, for example, students and tutors should be fully invested in the selection process. Although the Currier vacancy opened up on shorter notice than usual and interim masters will likely be named, the bulk of decision-making should not be left to administrators in University Hall. Their distance from and relative ignorance of a House’s particular community renders them woefully under-qualified to unilaterally name a master...
...York asked Parthenon to focus on students who were two or more years behind their peers in accumulating credits toward graduation. "We had a hunch that these overage, undercredited kids were the bulk of the dropouts," says Leah Hamilton, executive director of the city's Office of Multiple Pathways to Graduation. That turned out to be more correct than anyone had imagined: 93% of dropouts had a history of being overage and undercredited. In fact, once students fell into this category, they had just a 19% chance of finishing high school or getting a graduate equivalency diploma...
...Nonetheless, the production manages to slip in the occasional moment of humor. Forbess gets credit for providing the bulk of the much-needed comic relief. Her crass voice alone—not to mention her donkey’s laugh—made me giggle more than once. Nicholas’ sarcasm and passive-aggressive humor also helped alleviate the production’s intensity...