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...religion. I was one of three or four undergrads in my Divinity School class; the rest were twenty- and thirty-somethings well on their way to the pulpit. Their faith seems unshakable and, in a way, reminds me of a friend I had in high school. She was a card-carrying, Lord-praising, constantly evangelizing Christian fundamentalist. I saw her faith as suffocating her; she saw my lack of religion as a temporary step on the way to enlightenment. I’m sure she never regarded me as a bad person—merely a confused soul...
...need for heightened database security has been exposed repeatedly, thanks to high-profile thefts of sensitive information. These include the raiding of CD Universe's customer credit-card database in 2000 or the pilfering that year of patients' records from the University of Washington Medical Center. Visa and MasterCard have released guidelines to member banks and online merchants on measures each credit-card company expects them to take to protect card numbers. Congress, meanwhile, has passed laws demanding that financial institutions and health-care companies protect customer information...
...encryption. More vulnerable, however, are the new Wi-Fi networks that allow wireless access within short ranges. The problem with these remarkably convenient wireless local-area networks (WLANS) is that the range is not short enough. As with the Seattle conference-hotel WLAN, anyone with an inexpensive wireless card can access wireless networks from as far as 500 yds. away. Owing to the ease with which they can be installed, wireless networks are among the few tech sectors that continue to grow, according to the Gartner research firm, which estimates that WLAN shipments will rise 73% in 2002, boosting sales...
...that killed 13 and a grenade attack Oct. 17 in Manila's financial district?and President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has responded with a show of political testosterone intended to impress her APEC summit partners this week in Los Cabos, Mexico. She backed a controversial plan for a national ID card that will help keep tabs on bad guys. Her government also announced the deployment of 500 "secret marshals," plainclothes cops who will scour the nation looking for hoodlums. Arroyo's crackdown contrasted nicely with the foot-dragging of Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, and could win her a private meeting with...
...final wild card is Louisiana. Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu is leading, but the state has a unique "open primary" on Election Day in which all candidates from all parties are thrown together on one ballot. (It's like Mardi Gras with debates.) If no one gets 50%--and there are nine candidates, three of whom are legitimate G.O.P. hopefuls - the top two finishers go to a run-off on Dec. 7, meaning that it's possible that the Senate could remain locked 49 to 49 to 1 until then. Just in case such a scenario plays out, both parties (having...