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When 21-year-old Web entrepreneur Alex Tew received a $50,000 ransom demand last month, he remembers thinking, "There's no way on earth I'm paying these guys." Hackers had kidnapped Tew's Million Dollar Homepage, an advertising website, crippling it with a flood of data. Thousands of dollars, six days and two security teams later, the site was back up. "I can understand why gambling sites that accept thousands of dollars a day could choose to pay and be done with it," Tew says, "but I made a point of standing firm...
DESPITE THE FLOOD OF AMERICAN MONEY streaming into towns like Tuxpan, there is a palpable lack of vitality on the streets. In the summer working season, Tuxpan feels as if there's some great war on: all the fighting-age men have gone to battle the hedgerows up north. Only women, children and the elderly remain. That emptiness is felt acutely by Lucila, 75, mother of 13, eight of whom live in the U.S. She proudly gives a tour of her renovated house on one of the town's main streets. The back of the building is neat and thoroughly...
...broken water main caused significant flooding yesterday afternoon to the basement of Littauer Library. Few books are stored in the basement of the library, which opened in 1939 and contains collections on economics, government, and political science, along with the Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives. The flooding was caused when a cap in a water line broke, according to Matthew P. Stec, the building manager who was on scene coordinating the clean-up effort. Stec said yesterday evening that it was too soon to say how much damage had been caused by the flood. He added that a private...
When the raging flood-waters of Hurricane Katrina swept away the campuses, and plans, of Gulf Coast college students, they could have spent their semesters waiting and wallowing. But, for the 25 Tulane students who took refuge at Harvard this semester, the setback became an opportunity for an unusual adventure.From the House system and nightlife to advising and academic competition, Harvard was, for these students, a far cry from their school in the Big Easy. Almost all 25 students are set to return to Tulane this week, taking with them mixed impressions of their semesters in Cambridge.Of the 10 Tulane...
...tour of communities devastated by the rainstorms that hit California last week, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stood atop a battered levee reinforced by stacks of sandbags and previewed his next crusade. He was preparing to ask the legislature to support a 10-year, $222 billion proposal to fortify eroding flood banks and other decrepit infrastructure. Surveying the swollen canal nearby, Schwarzenegger closed by saying, "I hope we can move forward with [the plan]. It's just the sandbags protecting us from a disaster here...