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That's an awesome task, and it won't be completed overnight. "These threats are not new," asserts Robert Liscouski, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, who is shuffling several far-flung federal agencies into one National Cyber Security Division (NCSD). He says "digital Pearl Harbor" scenarios are exaggerated: "That's a bit of an overplay for me, and I get paid to worry about this stuff." In October, Amit Yoran, a former vice president of the Internet security firm Symantec, became head of the NCSD, which will attempt to seek and destroy vulnerabilities in cyberspace, issue warnings in real time...
...said that the NYPD offers $34,514 starting salaries, among the lowest for large metropolitan forces in the country. Meanwhile this smaller, less experienced force has been asked to work harder covering everything from traffic accidents to counter-terrorism, to give up vacation days for further training in these far-flung fields, and all this without proper equipment or a contract...
...HMNH Travel Program began in 1974 at the Museum of Comparative Zoology with whale-watching expeditions, but now sponsors trips to far-flung destinations like Burma, Scotland and Antartica...
...world was Howard’s laboratory. Over the course of five decades, he traveled to far-flung places all over the globe, but was best known for his research in the Caribbean, which produced a six-volume work entitled Flora of the Lesser Antilles, the most extensive record of plant life in the region to date...
...Taliban is attacking Afghans who collaborate with the Americans or the new government of President Hamid Karzai, particularly members of the security forces. These are the far-flung scouts of the new regime; by killing them, the Taliban hopes to leave the Americans "blinded," a Taliban recruit in the Pakistani border town of Chaman told TIME. Furthermore, a Taliban logistics officer tells TIME that the Taliban has established cells inside Afghanistan to carry out smaller-scale attacks, distribute propaganda and burn down schools. Afghan leaders want Pakistan to crack down on blatant Taliban activity in its tribal areas. U.S. officials...