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...embarrassments rather than full-blown catastrophes. Chinese hackers attacked some 1,200 sites, including the White House, the Department of Energy and the Air Force, defacing some sites and putting others temporarily out of service, during a standoff with Washington over a spy plane last year. Russians and Eastern Europeans did the same during the war in Kosovo, and Pakistani and Indian hackers are doing it right now. Over a period of several years, U.S. investigators believe hackers - probably from Russia - tunneled into department of Defense sites and illegally downloaded large quantities of technical defense research, all unclassified, according...
...been mapping and excavating the Royal Quarters of Alexandria. He identified the probable site of Cleopatra's palace on the island of Antirrhodos, which featured an esplanade lined with statues and granite columns. At about the same time, French archaeologist Jean-Yves Empereur, working a concession in Alexandria's eastern harbor, discovered the likely remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Critics of Goddio's work say he has stretched himself too thin, dashing from one project to another more out of love for adventure than for the serious discipline of archaeology...
...away on battered violins. By the time the concert got under way they had already been warming up for an hour and soon had the crowd of Londoners (Londoners!) dancing in the pews. A corner of Tony Blair's old borough was transformed, momentarily, into a raucous outpost of Eastern Europe. And so it goes with Taraf de Haïdouks, or "band of brigands," a Romanian gypsy group that has won praise from the late Yehudi Menuhin, modeled clothes for Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto and played Johnny Depp's Viper Club in L.A. Taraf's CD sales...
...Black and White first varsity, which loses just Lockwood to graduation, will have to wait until next season, however, to improve on its third-place finish at the Eastern Sprints...
...days later, the Crimson solemnly received its NCAA assignment. Its postseason results—a 1-0 quadruple-overtime, 137-minute marathon victory over Hartford and a 1-0 defeat at perennial eastern power UConn in round two—gave some solace to the dismal conclusion to the Ivy season...