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These networks are able to grow far larger than they ever could have before the Internet tore down geographic boundaries, and this enables them to do some pretty special things. Airliners.net, a web site where airplane enthusiasts (they really do exist!) can gather and swap photos, has a database with pictures of just about every commercial plane in service, tens of thousands in all, and surely part of Wikipedia’s success is due to the community of people interested in organizing information which has sprung up around...
...Size of objects detectable on Earth by a new Israeli satellite, launched by Russia last week, that will allow Israel to gather data on Iran's nuclear program $800 million Cost of Iran's Bushehr nuclear-power plant, which Russia is helping to build...
There are clear privacy concerns associated with the creation of this education database. Although it is unclear how the government would gather information for the database, we are uncomfortable with opening up more channels through which the government can track its citizens. It is also unclear exactly what kinds of problems this data could address. The commission would be wise to propose specific questions it would like to answer before embarking on a data-mining expedition of millions of private citizens...
...Size of objects detectable on Earth by a new Israeli satellite, launched by Russia last week, that will allow Israel to gather data on Iran's nuclear program...
Though most Harvard students have never heard of the Perkins Room, the discussions held there come to define their Harvard experiences.In the room on the second floor of Mass. Hall, which is furnished only with one long table, presidents, deans, and faculty gather to decide the tenure fates of junior professors.These ad hoc committee meetings—the final stage of a lengthy tenure process—sometimes devolve to “people yelling at each other,” one professor said. But one man ultimately holds veto power over all decisions: University President Lawrence H. Summers.Professors...