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...their beloved mobile phones, few Brits know - or care - where their phone signal is coming from. It could be transmitted from a chimney stack, drainpipe, the cross on the church steeple - or wherever else The Undetectables have been. The Bristol-based firm specializes in making unsightly mobile-phone masts disappear into the local environment. The build-up of 3-G networks means even more masts to disguise. The Undetectables got their start as film-set designers, but now apply their eye for detail to replicating bird droppings on the sides of fake chimneys and flagpoles, or more ornate concealments, like...
...choice and freedom in course selection that they deserve and expected when they matriculated at Harvard. It is the one time at Harvard when a good lecturer is most prized, and teaching—not research—is most valued. This culture of shopping period will not disappear easily; students will pack their preregistration forms with five courses they fear will be lotteried—planning on dropping some and adding the great courses that they find later on—thus subverting the system and making it useless...
...only in lawful activities. There is no governmental check set up to oversee such decisions either, leaving enforcement of the bill solely up to the Ashcroft and his Justice Department cronies. The severity of this provision is extreme: any one of us, citizens and non-citizens alike, could just disappear. And the public would have no recourse to find out who has been detained and for how long they will continue to be held in secret...
...numbers in Europe, a technique not allowed in the U.S. She also says she had some tough questions for Ahold about its cash flow, but received only vague answers. "There was no way to see the true picture," she says. Some of these ambiguities and discrepancies are supposed to disappear over the next two years as European companies switch to new international accounting standards that are closer to the U.S. rules. But the changeover could sow more confusion. At Bouygues, a French construction and telecommunications company, for example, finance chief Olivier Poupart-Lafarge says he expects managers will return...
...anthrax, breathe no anthrax.” The Internet makes complete censorship impossible. By naively assuming that their journals are the main places where terrorists will get their information, journal editors are doing a great disservice both to science and to the public. Suppressing information does not make it disappear...