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Frazier Todd Jr., a flimflam man from Atlanta, sussed out the IRS's inability to detect fraud. Todd obtained Social Security numbers from dozens of Atlanta women who lived in public housing projects. He then secured employer IDs from the IRS (making him look as if he were hiring them) and transcribed both numbers onto W-2 forms that he used to prepare electronic returns. Todd filled in an income for these women and a figure for taxes withheld that was high enough to kick back a generous refund. Todd then took the returns to banks to obtain "refund anticipation...
...teach the machine how the chess building blocks it can understand relate to one another? Benjamin has spent the past year helping Deep Blue's programmers encode thousands of positional evaluation rules, leavening the program's computational prowess with what one might call street smarts. "The hardware can detect certain features of a chessboard," says Campbell. "Rooks on open files, pins, pawn structure. It's a matter of assigning weights to how important these features are in a given position...
...detect three trends in the direction that the Assistant Dean has tried to move public service at the College since the beginning of her tenure just over a year ago. All three are harmful not only to PBHA but also to the nature of undergraduate service in its entirety. These issues are the attempted merging of different public service organizations, a top-down, staff-driven management style, and a politically-motivated reallocation of resources...
Still, when I consult my journalistic instincts I detect something vaguely irking about their peaceful coexistence--or maybe I'm just hungry--so I set out for Pinocchio's, ready to start a controversy. Soon I'm in the restaurant's cozy confines, and when I ask if any of the owners are around, Rico Dicensio, one of the pizza men I recognize from my many late-night visits, steps out from behind the counter to introduce himself. We get to talking and it comes out that the soft-spoken Dicensio was born in Italy and immigrated to America...
...would be different if the indignities of airport security served a self-evident lifesaving purpose. But the first thing the inquisitive traveler learns is that the X-ray machines that constitute the principal barrier between parking lot and planes can detect only teaspoons and hairpins and are utterly indifferent to the plastic devices favored by modern mass murderers. Why not buy machines that can actually detect bombs? Too expensive, the airlines say, as if airplanes were cheap. And of course nothing reveals the purely ceremonial nature of airport security like the long-standing rule against telling bomb-related jokes...