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...delegates received a hearty welcome in Cambridge—their first stop in their month-long voyage along the northeastern U.S., with stops including Penn Yan, N.Y., Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City.Partly due to the success of the delegation’s visit, such exchanges became more frequent, allowing for greater understanding between the two countries, according to the delegation’s interpreter, Edward W. Keane ’57.Fifty years later, tension between the former USSR and the U.S. has largely subsided, and Harvard’s Davis Center for Eurasian Studies and the College?...
...Languages and Cultures, after the show. The two had a four-hour first date at Café Pamplona and spent nearly all their time together while Aggarwal finished his master’s degree. When he graduated that spring, they continued to see each other long-distance. Kumar made frequent trips to New Haven, where Aggarwal is now conducting a residency at Yale to become a psychiatrist. “I should be the Greyhound or the Amtrak brand ambassador,” Kumar said. This spring, with Kumar’s friends gathered at Small Plates for tea, Aggarwal...
Cyberattacks have grown more frequent and destructive in recent years. One form of hacking - the denial-of-service (DoS) attack - has apparently even become a tool of war. The attacks are designed to paralyze websites, financial networks and other computer systems by flooding them with data from outside computers. A 15-year-old Canadian with the handle "mafiaboy" launched the first documented DoS attack in 2000, against numerous e-commerce sites, including eBay and Amazon.com, shutting some down and wreaking havoc that cost an estimated $1.7 billion. In 2007, entities believed to have been associated with the Russian government...
Government and private Web networks in the U.S. have emerged as frequent targets for online scofflaws. The Pentagon reported some 360 million attempts to break into its networks last year, up from just 6 million in 2006. That includes a reportedly successful attempt to hack into the $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project and copy data about the aircraft's design and electronics systems. The espionage is believed to have originated in China. Experts say computer criminals in China and Russia have also infiltrated America's electrical grid, covertly installing software to potentially damage it at any time (the governments...
...opening up the market, regulators hope to give rail companies room to offer more frequent and diverse services, like special business-class cars. "Our experience has shown that choice is important to travelers, and when you increase the range of choice with new products, services and suppliers, you increase the number of clients who want to explore those new options," says Mireille Faugère, president of domestic and international passenger services for France's state rail company, Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français (SNCF). "For a company like ours - which derives...