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When the very first trailers hit the Web for You Don't Mess with the Zohan, the latest Adam Sandler comedy readying for its North American release this Friday, more than a few movie buffs caught the whiff of something familiar. There were some who saw in Sandler's shaggy new look and scattered speech patterns, similarities to Borat, the fictional Kazakhstani television celebrity played by Sacha Baron Cohen in the hit 2006 comedy. Others saw the wording of the title - and the casting of John Turturro as Sandler's arch-nemesis - and were reminded...
...CAPTCHA caught on, and now it's all over the Web. Luis von Ahn, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon who was part of the original CAPTCHA team, estimates that people fill out close to 200 million CAPTCHAS a day. But you should pause when you see one--it's one of the rare moments when the invisible war being waged between spammers and programmers becomes visible to you, the prey. "Of course," says Von Ahn, "this has been a little bit of an arms race with spammers, because now there's a huge incentive for spammers...
...easy, of course, to get caught up in the marvels of engineering and its transformative impact. After all, the launch of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) last September was intended to celebrate Harvard’s recognition of the importance of engineering and applied sciences—from advancing knowledge to meeting human needs to enhancing prosperity to ensuring sustainability...
...underpopulated campus hid a fearsome black market. This prohibited trade—sometimes thinly disguised but often overt—made up a substantial portion of the traffic on house and open lists. Though in past years the University administration has threatened to Ad Board any students caught engaging in this prohibited activity, students continue out of desperation for this highly sought-after commodity...
...scholarship to Cambridge. Though he initially planned to study medicine, his interests shifted to anthropology.In 1963, he crossed the Atlantic to attend Yale on a fellowship, though he returned to Cambridge within two years “immunized by America.”“I had caught the American bug—that there is no reason to not think you could do something new,” Pilbeam said, adding that Cambridge at that time did not fit the bill.In 1981, after another 13 years at Yale, Pilbeam came to Harvard—the only place...