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...Baer's column last week (Opinion, "Washed Away with the Tide," Feb. 14) was a well-researched and informative article on the source and distribution of laundry revenues that the budget-constrained House Committees receive. Her conclusion that "funneling laundry revenues through House Committees is not an equitable method of redistribution," however, was not as convincing...
Rabin's encryption method involves using an infinite stream of randomly generated, unstored characters to transmit messages. The sender and receiver of a message agree when to start reading signals carried in the stream and the key to decode them, but the stream itself just disappears, leaving hackers no way to store and decipher the message...
...business school's typical Socratic method, we read and discuss cases--about giant drug companies giving away drugs to diseased African nations, companies that support AmeriCorps even while they lay off their own employees, and telephone utilities that donate computers and networks to schools. While these "socially responsible" cases provide a welcome contrast to the standard fare of mergers and acquisitions, high tech battles and clever marketing schemes, the material is treated institutionally and culturally with a care bordering on disrespect...
...troubled region, Africa. Instead, her church sent her to China to teach university students. Goodspeed, 56, carried her Bible and her activism to the lakefront city of Hangzhou in eastern China. There she developed a popular style: she asks students to submit journals, which she returns with comments. The method builds intimate relationships, and her students often open up to her in ways they wouldn't with their closest friends. One student recently wondered in writing whether her fiancE could love her enough. Goodspeed punctuated her written reply with a typical comment: "As a Christian, I would say that only...
...Florida courts are currently examining the legality of an agreement signed two years ago by Richard Briggs Bailey, the former chairman of a mutual-funds company, promising his wife Nanette Sexton Bailey $20,000 a month in alimony should he cheat. His now estranged wife is using an unusual method to prove the infidelity: she had the sheets she believed her husband had soiled with another woman tested...