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Imagine this: Someone out there knows your name, your credit card information, your bank account numbers and your social security number. They are pretending to be you - running up outrageous bills, even committing crimes - and as far as your banks, creditors and various authorities are concerned, they...
...information that describes you - it's not really you, of course, but to anyone online it is you. In other words, if someone can use your social security number, which is really the key to identity theft, and find your financial information, like a bank account number or credit card number, they can begin to build an identity of someone online who has a lot of your characteristics...
Earth received a cosmic calling card last week. It arrived in the form of a huge rock, about 1,000 ft. in diameter, that hurtled past the planet at 68,000 m.p.h. The asteroid, newly dubbed 2001 YB5, missed us by some 500,000 miles, about twice our distance from the moon. For astronomers, however, that was a hairbreadth, and a dramatic reminder that space is filled with debris that has devastated our planet in the past and could very likely to do so again...
...chances of getting Alzheimer's later in life. That link is still quite controversial; less so are some of the study's other findings, such as the protection the brain apparently gets from higher education pursued in young adulthood or from engaging in constant mental activity like playing card games or teaching during one's golden years...
...portable E.R. in the chest" is how Dick Cheney's doctor described the device he installed--along with a pacemaker, to keep the Veep's heart beating regularly--last July. Cheney, who suffered his fourth heart attack last year, may have to wear the business card-size device for the rest of his life. But should his heart ever act up again, the thing will automatically deliver a small jolt of electricity (enough to light a 30-watt bulb for 1 sec.) and snap it back into line...