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...flaws. For signs of what may come, look to the other side of the Atlantic, where the directive's U.S. counterpart, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, has spawned lawsuits involving threatened research. The E.U. directive, too, offers little explicit protection for computer scientists, says intellectual-property law expert Thomas Vinje. "I would not want to be representing them." That's bad news for researchers like Dutch cryptographer Niels Ferguson. Last year, he wrote a paper detailing weaknesses in an Intel encryption system. Fearful of legal liability in the U.S. if a hacker used his work to exploit those...
Though he's an expert horseman, the Harvard-educated Uribe, 49, looks less like the Clint Eastwood persona he cultivates and more like one of the legions of owlish technocrats who took over Latin America in the 1990s. He was hardened as mayor of Medellin, the continent's most violent city. Though his father, a rancher, was a friend of Fabio Ochoa, the late patriarch of the city's notorious drug cartel (the two shared a love of horses), Mayor Uribe was a noted crime buster there. As governor of northern Antioquia and as a Senator, he built a reputation...
...leading wire to wire. Two weeks later, in the Preakness, the "speed" horses were supposed to drain War Emblem like a cheap battery. He won going away. "Baffert and the Prince were able to see that they could move [War Emblem] up in class," says Tom Hammond, a racing expert...
...most exciting thing about these results, says Jeffrey Bluestone, an immunology expert at the University of California, San Francisco, who developed the treatment, is that it shows "you can fundamentally change the immune system without the need for long-term therapy." In other words, the immune system can be retrained...
...HEAVYWEIGHT Thai kickboxing twins Maki and Aki didn't see the guitar coming. Billy Chaka, ace investigative reporter for Youth in Asia teen magazine and expert in kung fu, kenpo, Tae-kwondo, jeet kune do, capoeira and "many of the esoteric brands between," outfought the duo with a cherry-red Gibson and plunged back into Tokyo's pulsating streets. His mission: to figure out what a little bird had to do with the deaths of a night porter in Hokkaido and the country's most beloved rock star...