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...with last year's corporate accounting scandals, boards of directors will get closer scrutiny. Congress is considering a bill that would tighten board oversight of mutual-fund managers and increase the number of independent directors, including the chairman. Spitzer says that an alert board of directors can easily detect market timing using public information about the fund's trading volume, and would never allow fund executives to trade their own funds against the interest of shareholders, as the chairman of Strong Funds is accused of doing. (Richard Strong has said he will reimburse the fund for any gains found...
...treating breast cancer, was accompanied by a photograph of a woman whose hand and arm were strategically placed across her bare breasts [Oct. 20]. In the same issue, a story on the development of a male birth-control drug had an illustration of a man's head. Do I detect a double standard here? Next time you do a story involving male sexuality or, say, prostate cancer, I suggest you include a photo of an artistically posed male nude covering his nether regions. Fair's fair. Karen Meyers Toledo, Ohio
...behavior. Basically, the credit-card companies monitor your card patterns, and when something out of the ordinary happens--a card is used overseas, yet the cardholder rarely travels, for example--the alarm goes off. Is the cardholder really in London? It sounds creepy and intrusive, but tracking exceptions to detect intruders is the basis for several new security approaches. And it has already become an invisible part of our lives. Stolfo has a start-up called System Detection, a two-year-old company whose tools scan networks and applications for code that shouldn't be there. Surveillance of this variety...
...notebook that has a built-in wireless card and is running Windows XP or Mac OS X should immediately detect the presence of your network and, if all goes well, configure itself. My iBook was connected in less than a minute. The Dell 600m I borrowed required a bit more fiddling but was pretty straightforward...
According to Rosenthal, a toxicology screening could detect Rohypnol in urine up to 12 hours after ingestion...