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...government agencies by setting up credible-sounding e-mail addresses and look-alike websites to get consumers to hand over passwords and other information. Be suspicious of requests to provide information a second time and queries from anyone you haven't spoken to before. Call the company to confirm that the e-mail is legit. If you get phished, call your bank and credit-card companies, and report the fraud at www.ftc.gov and reportphishing@antiphishing.org --By Barbara Kiviat
...battle raged, Bush Administration officials played down expectations. Officials said U.S. intelligence could not confirm reports of al-Zawahiri's whereabouts. But the possibility that he might be cornered sent pulses racing. Since the late '90s, the Egyptian has served as bin Laden's chief tactician, personal doctor and spiritual guide. His elimination would mean the al-Qaeda command structure that plotted the 9/11 attacks would be almost completely wiped...
Kirshner declined to comment on the conditions of Brown’s departure and declined to confirm or deny Brown’s e-mail explanation...
...first, the numbers seemed to confirm the old myth: 13 percent of students identified themselves as “Very Liberal,” a full 47 percent said they were “Liberal,” 22 percent were “Moderate,” 11 percent were “Conservative,” 2 percent were “Very Conservative” and 6 percent were “Apathetic.” Ostensibly, it appeared that outright liberals outnumbered outright conservatives on a four to one margin. But the analysis does...
...NEA’s representation of the majority of American teachers is thus a curious thing. Just a glance at the NEA’s operations might be enough to confirm this: Teachers who want benefits and tenure in most districts must join the NEA; the union has a male-heavy leadership in a profession filled by women; and, more tellingly, the organization has done everything it can to obstruct even basic education reforms on federal and state levels. The union was outraged with NCLB and Democrats, who flocked to support the law after Sen. Edward M. Kennedy...