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Dellapenta met his victim off-line, at church, but more often the first encounter occurs online. There are few hard statistics on cyberstalking. But Working to Halt Online Abuse, a group that helps cyberstalking victims, says it receives reports of nearly 100 cases a week. The stalkers meet their victims, according to the group, mainly via e-mail, chat groups, newsgroups and instant messaging...
...they handle this info. That's why you may be getting some strange-looking correspondence from your bank. The notices tend to be shuffled among other solicitations in monthly statements. The new law won't stop data sharing from happening--it's not designed to--but it may halt some of the more indiscriminate sales that generate millions of dollars a year for the industry. That's contingent on people opting out, and according to a recent study by the American Bankers Association, only 36% of customers had even read their notices...
...relative amounts of hydrogen, helium and lithium in the universe, that protons, neutrons and electrons (the building blocks of every atom in the cosmos) add up to only about 5% of the so-called critical density--what it would take to bring the cosmic expansion essentially to a halt by means of gravity...
...SHARPTON Rotund preacher's hunger strike not in vain: Navy will halt Vieques bombing, he sheds...
...investment binge that saw companies throwing money at all things high tech. That rocketed the rate of economic growth a year ago to a broiling annual pace of 5.6%. But when the overheated spending failed to produce juicy profits, corporate America suddenly cut back, bringing capital investment to a halt and lowering gdp growth to just 1.3% in the first quarter of this year. Today's high-tech investment numbers still look "monumentally awful," says Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist for the consulting firm High Frequency Economics...