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Tomorrow's events include "Thousand-Sticker Extravaganza" from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside the science center, a viewing of the A&E biography of Bill Bradley at 6 p.m. in Mather House senior common room, and a poster-making party from 8-11 p.m. in Leverett House junior common room...
There are far-reaching implications of these new discrepancies in teaching standards for Kansas students. Eventually, many of these students will leave Kansas for other areas of the world, and they will be unprepared to deal with many common current scientific ideas. Granted, not knowing the theory of evolution probably won't have a great effect on one's quality of life, but the precedent being set foreshadows an increasingly large split between education standards in the Midwest and the other regions of the country. As a result, students from the Midwest will be at a strong disadvantage...
...most common attack reported by hacker watchers makes use of a Trojan horse. These are programs with bizarre names like Back Orifice or Net Bus that can be hidden in an e-mail attachment--say, one of those animated birthday cards people seem to like e-mailing. Once you open it, you've installed the software--and the wily hacker has remote control of your...
...here's the good news. Such attacks are still rare; they can easily be detected; and all it takes to prevent them is common sense. Turn off file sharing in your network control panel. Add password protection to your most precious files. And for goodness' sake, don't ever, ever open an e-mail attachment from someone you don't know and trust like family...
Thirty years ago, military satellites first noticed flashbulb-like gamma bursts going off throughout the cosmos. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, opened in 1991, discovered that the bursts were surprisingly common--300 or so occur each year--and remarkably distant. "They are more than halfway to the edge of the visible universe," says NASA astrophysicist Neil Gehrels...