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...father and uncle were former FBI agents, and when Christopher Boyce was investigated for security clearance, he came up clean. TRW, a major CIA contractor, hired the young man with the genius IQ, and Boyce went to work in the company's code room. Now serving a 40-year sentence for selling spy-satellite information to the U.S.S.R., Boyce, 32, told a Senate subcommittee last week that once he was granted top-secret clearance and saw how inefficient security procedures were, he "decided the intelligence community was a great, bumbling, bluffing deception...
Thieves can clone any car by writing down its VIN--which is required by law to be displayed on the bottom of the dashboard and is also found on parts of the frame--and using bar-code software, high-quality home printers and metal-stamping tools to create identical tags for a stolen car of the same make and model. If a car has duplicated tags, a police officer running the VIN through his computer during a routine traffic stop can't tell that...
...couple of my roommates and I plan to spend the summer writing a lucrative and trashy thriller. It is going to be—in the words of one of my collaborators—“like ‘Desperate Housewives’ meets The Da Vinci Code.” It will be set, of course, at Harvard...
And—most pertinently for us—in recent thrillers, “Harvard” functions as convenient shorthand for “skeptic” and “snob.” Robert Langdon, hero of The Da Vinci Code, is a “Harvard symbologist.” NBC’s forthcoming miniseries based on the Book of Revelation (and catchily entitled Revelations—I can’t wait!) features a skeptical Harvard astrophysicist, Professor Richard Massey. All of this augurs well, we feel, for the success of our novel...
...charity work) or make their daytime-TV job into a guide for how to live a meaningful life (Oprah Winfrey). Others may be less obvious but by dint of their inventions (Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, who gave us the BlackBerry), writings (Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code) or bravery in the face of pain (Melissa Etheridge) are leaving their impression on the world...