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...more fingers and toes. It will have to find a benefactor at some point soon. Perhaps the shadowy past of Mexican financier Carlos Slim, a Times Co. shareholder, can be swept under the rug long enough for him to step into the role. The company could create a document separating "church" from "state," which might keep Slim out of the newsroom like the provisions to hold Rupert Murdoch in check at Dow Jones...
Needless to say, neither MI5, nor the Home Office, the government department that handles inquiries about the stealth agency, is eager to share the specifics of the role. The document detailing the job, circulated by Egon Zehnder International, a London-based headhunting firm, doesn't go beyond the vaguest of descriptions. The successful candidate will be responsible for "developing and owning a clear science, technology and innovation strategy for the Security Service", it reads, and "ensuring that [science] ... is soundly based...
...tricky nature of the job means a fellow of the Royal Society, Britain's independent scientific academy, or its Royal Academy of Engineers, is most likely to fill the position, the headhunter's document suggests...
...Officials in the Bush Administration maintain that the intelligence wrung from terror detainee Abu Zubaydah (whom the CIA waterboarded "at least" 83 times, according to an an agency document released by the Obama Administration last week) led to the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks. His capture, in turn, helped prevent future terror strikes, they maintain; Mohammed himself, the memos revealed, was waterboarded a startling 183 times in March 2003 (a May 2005 memo from a CIA lawyer said waterboarding could be used on a detainee up to 12 times daily...
...Facebook’s 200 million active users voted on the proposals, all of Facebook’s future amendments would go through the same voting process. Users have been given the option to either maintain Facebook’s current terms of service or to amend the document by taking into consideration users’ complaints and criticisms. Voting has been in progress since April 16, and will continue until Thursday, April 23. According to Zuckerberg’s stipulations, nearly 70 million users would need to vote on the two proposals in order to achieve the 30 percent...