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...said that the monkeys used in the research had been given methamphetamine - commonly known as speed - instead. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... A Job with Security Britain's domestic intelligence service MI5 wants you. The normally secretive organization placed an ad in Police Review magazine for static surveillance officers to monitor CCTV footage. Potential spies must be "perceptive enough to spot the smallest details." In return, the service is offering 320,500 a year and a "relaxed, friendly and supportive working environment." Recruits would also benefit, the ad says, "from job security...
What does the N.Y.S.E. boss do? Grasso, 57, who has been chairman since 1995, won wide praise for his leadership after Sept. 11, 2001, but his main role in the 211-year-old exchange is essentially that of corporate hall monitor. Public companies can list their stocks anywhere, but 2,800 of them choose to do so with the N.Y.S.E., which maintains an old-fashioned trading floor for the purpose. (Trading is electronic at the NASDAQ.) The broker-dealers who make trades are members of the exchange, and Grasso enforces the rules they must follow to keep their spots. Recent...
...consultant Patrick Young says it's about time: "It shouldn't have taken so long to figure out you don't get qualified investor leads by advertising on Yahoo's astrology page." Maybe there's hope for Furby yet. - By STEVE ZWICK New WorldCom Order A U.S. court-appointed monitor announced an overhaul of bankrupt telecom giant WorldCom's corporate governance, as Oklahoma filed criminal charges against the company - now known as MCI - and six former executives, for giving false information to investors...
...skilled hacker could disable a network of several plants without ever entering a facility by seizing digital controls at the point where computers meet the infrastructure they run. The weak links are the devices called supervisory-control and data-acquisition systems, which monitor power flows. Much of the information terrorists would need to hack into them is available on the Internet. And since energy deregulation, many companies have adopted common platforms for their computer systems. The control systems often lack rudimentary security, leaving technical specifications and flaws on view to potential attackers...
...borders are big and porous," notes a senior U.S. intelligence official. "If we had any ability to monitor the influx, they wouldn't be in there." U.S. officials say they can't estimate the strength of such fighters. "We don't have the ability to monitor that," says the senior intelligence official. "We don't have regular numbers." But foreigners certainly have been among those killed in military raids. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, testifying before Congress last week, referred to a recent raid in western Iraq in which Egyptian, Sudanese and Syrian passports were found on the bodies...