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...live in hiding in Syria. (The names of the bomber and her family have been changed at their insistence.) Although aspects of their story are impossible to verify, important details tally with the version of events provided by Iraqi officials in Anbar. (The U.S. military will only confirm that a woman suicide bomber attacked the checkpoint at Kilometer 5 on July 23.) Sadiya and Shafiqa also allowed TIME to view, but not to record, two DVDs given to them by an Al-Qaeda fighter; one is Hasna's last statement, the other is a recording of her suicide mission...
...best friend/ex-boyfriend Ben (Iddo Goldberg). She has vague literary ambitions and is aware that hers is a job without a long future. And despite the high-class, clean-and-safe veneer, she has to call her agency on each date with a code phrase--"No problemo"--to confirm her client isn't Jack the Ripper...
...places Burgos in the army's "order of battle"-a roster of NPA insurgents targeted for arrest or elimination. Next to Burgos' name is the word "neutralized." The memo bears the name of the 56th Infantry Battalion's chief intelligence officer, but is not signed. Bacarro will not confirm the document's authenticity. "It is the subject of an investigation so we're leaving it to the court to assert the authenticity," he says...
...because there are things computers can't do, and there are fewer and fewer of those things all the time. Headlines on tech blogs regularly announce the cracking of CAPTCHAS--Gmail's, Hotmail's, Yahoo!'s. Von Ahn doubts the headlines are true--and companies aren't eager to confirm this kind of rumor--but it's possible for an amateur, poorly conceived CAPTCHA to be hacked. (He gives an example: a CAPTCHA in which each letter was always formed out of the same number of pixels. All the malware had to do was count the pixels in a letter...
...m.p.h. (20,400 km/h) to a toe-in-the-dust touchdown speed of a few feet per second. With Mars and Earth currently 171 million miles (275 million km) apart, however, signals from the ship need a full 15 min. 20 sec. to get here, meaning NASA did not confirm the 7-min. plunge until 8 min. after it ended. If the ship had crashed, the stream of incoming data would have been nothing more than an electromagnetic message from the grave...