Word: lateraling
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...information like your date of birth and - above all else - your Social Security number. Once scammers have gotten ahold of that piece of particularly sensitive information, they can do real damage, like opening credit cards in your name and running up thousands of dollars in charges that you'll later have a difficult time getting out of. There might be a real reason to ask for that information - to do a background check, say - but you should withhold it until after an in-person meeting. "What employer is going to hire a person without sitting down and interviewing them?" asks...
...billion in business every year to counterfeit-drug makers, according to WHO estimates. In 2002, the industry set up a Washington-based agency called the Pharmaceutical Security Industry, run by Thomas Kubic, a former FBI deputy assistant director, to try to tackle the problem. And four years later, the WHO launched an international task force dedicated to the issue. But so far, such efforts have merely highlighted the growing trade. The Pharmaceutical Security Industry tracked more than 1,800 incidents of drug-counterfeiting around the world last year, 10 times the number when it first started monitoring seven years...
...minutes later, sophomore defender Tim Lyndon, meeting a pass from freshman Zack Wolfenson, was pulled down in the box, resulting in a penalty. Akpan lined up the ensuing kick, only to see his shot blocked away by Crusader keeper Thomas Booth...
When Lance Armstrong won his record-breaking seventh Tour de France championship in 2005, Chris Hong was playing the violin, not giving a moment’s thought to cycling. Now, four years later in Hong’s senior year at Harvard, his stringed instruments have been pushed to the wayside for handlebars and a saddle, and cycling has become his new, and favorite, tune...
...actually a very boring person,” Ferguson claims later...