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in wartime that included a permanent fleet of airborne intensive-care units (ICUs). Although the plan was expensive, the commanders believed it was the surest way to save lives. "Before that, the traditional way was to keep casualties on the ground until they were stable," says Holcomb. By then, many...
three men stepped out of an alley and fired rocket-propelled grenades, splitting apart the vehicle. In the brief moment he was conscious, he saw the blinding flash of the explosion and the dead body of his gunner sprawled across the back seat. Days later, doctors in Iraq e-mailed...
The Stanford Graduate School of Business announced earlier this week that it would take the incident into account in its admissions decisions, but it did not say whether it had accepted any of the individuals involved. Stanford asked the 41 affected applicants to write a letter explaining their actions.
Kenneth S. Ledeen, chairman of Nevo Technologies and a teaching fellow in Quantitative Reasoning 48, “Bits,” said that, while he does not believe the applicants’ actions constituted hacking, the incident still raises difficult ethical questions.
The Green Card Incident, as the Canter-and-Siegel affair came to be known, , brought to the surface issues that had been lurking largely unexamined beneath the Net's explosive growth. It was not designed for doing commerce, and it does not gracefully accommodate new arrivals -- especially those who don...