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About 50 students and five public policy experts participated in a Lyman Common Room symposium entitled "Children at Risk," the first of a two-part series on the link between public policy and public service...
...label psychotic killer, a favorite of headline writers and Hollywood producers, reinforces an inaccurate link between mental illness and violence. According to recent studies, slightly more than 11% of the mentally ill are prone to violence, roughly the same percentage as in the general population. In reality, most mentally ill patients are withdrawn, frightened and passive. For 25 years, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication tracked television portrayals of the mentally ill in prime time: more than 72% of the characters were portrayed as violent...
...called Masters of Disaster. They are charged with breaking into computers at a host of companies and institutions, including the University of Washington, Bank of America, ITT and Martin Marietta. In one of its most damaging raids, the group allegedly wiped out most of the data on the Learning Link, a computer owned by a New York City public-TV station that provides educational information for hundreds of schools. A chilling electronic message was left behind: "Happy Thanksgiving, you turkeys, from all of us at MOD." It was signed with five code names: Phiber Optik, Acid Phreak, Outlaw, Corrupt...
Could MOD have been stupid enough to leave behind such a confession? One member says the gang was framed by a rival hacker who liquidated the Learning Link himself. The defendants' court-appointed lawyers claim the feds have built an elaborate Mafia-like case against rebellious yet relatively harmless kids. "Being arrogant and obnoxious is not a crime," argues attorney Michael Godwin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that defends exploratory hacking. As for Masters of Disaster, he adds, "it's just a way-cool name. Teenagers aren't going to call themselves the Electronic Birdwatchers Society." While most...
...Turkish-U.S. interests coincide more than ever," Ozal said, Turkey will become a key link between the East and the West...