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...other words, it was one thing for Israel to send bombers into Syrian airspace and obliterate a massively expensive nuclear reactor that had been under construction for years. Syrian President Basahr Assad could apparently accept that. But talking about it in public? Now that was really going to hack the Syrians off - so much so they might start a war against Israel that they would almost surely lose...
Last month’s hack of a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Web server may have compromised 10,000 sets of personal information from applicants and students, including 6,600 Social Security numbers and 500 Harvard ID numbers, the University said yesterday. According to the University’s Chief Information Officer Daniel D. Moriarty, when Harvard realized after a preliminary scan of the disseminated information that “the same methods that the hacker used could have exposed other data,” they began cataloguing the rest of the server’s contents...
Last month's hack of a Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Web server may have compromised 10,000 sets of personal information from applicants and students, including 6,600 Social Security numbers and 500 Harvard ID numbers, the University said today...
...Tokyo police force's insular Criminal Affairs Division. The whodunit won Nonami the 1996 Naoki Prize, awarded for general literary excellence and nabbed in subsequent years by Kirino and fellow mystery writer Miyabe Miyuki, proving that all three women write with rather more virtuosity than the average potboiler hack...
...needs the income from Brazil's booming agriculture sector. Brazil is the world's biggest beef and soy exporter and it leads the global race to turn sugar cane into fuel. When commodities like soy, beef and grains are sought after on world markets, farmers have more incentive to hack away and create fields. Environment Minister Marina Silva said the recent rise in deforestation is due in large part to increased commodity prices. Deforestation fell along with food prices in 2005 and 2006 and now both are on the rise. Silva, however, meets counter-arguments from within the government...