Word: homelands
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Voltage provides encryption software to banks and health-care providers to safeguard financial and medical records. The company also works with government agencies and ran trials with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense to develop secure methods of transmitting and storing government information more quickly and cheaply than current encryption systems allow...
...first is the compelling story of an idealistic group of Yale law students and their professor who fought to get the Haitian refugees into America. Goldstein intersperses this story with an account of the harrowing journey of Yvonne Pascal, a young pro-democracy activist who escaped torture in her homeland only to find herself fenced in on Guantánamo. “Storming the Court” is a fascinating legal drama—a sort of modern “Amistad...
...world. But even without the provocation of Iraq, there's no reason to assume the terrorist threat to the U.S. would disappear. "Whether we pull out of Iraq or not," says a U.S. counterterrorism official, "al-Qaeda will still want to hit us where it hurts: in the homeland...
KAMEO: ELEMENTS OF POWER Kameo is the nameof a flirty little fairy who lives in a surreal, candy-colored never-never land. She doesn't look as though she could take on an Olsen twin, let alone the monsters marauding through her homeland, but fortunately she can transform into 10 different elemental warriors, including a flower with a very nasty attitude. Psychedelic and Zelda-esque, Kameo is the most distinctive of the 360 launch titles. It's the closest you will get to dreaming with your eyes open...
...part of an even more controversial program once called Total Information Awareness, it was equated with "betting on terrorism." Congressional outrage squelched the project, but the fact is, betting on terrorism actually makes sense. Consider the investigation just launched in Washington over an apparent leak at the Department of Homeland Security in which insiders seem to have tipped off relatives about an alleged threat to the New York City subway system. Outrageous behavior? Perhaps. But get those "insider traders" into a market, and everyone will have access to that information. Insiders have a motivation--money, at the basest level...