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...program will be the largest public-works project in history, dwarfing the construction of the Roman road system and the Great Wall of China. The interstate network will reach into every corner of the U.S. to link 42 state capitals and 90% of all cities with more than 50,000 population. It will carry a fifth of the nation's traffic, provide vital defense routes in case of war ... The new roads will ease present congestion, be able to accommodate the nearly 90 million vehicles that are expected to speed over U.S. roads by 1972. With fewer curves, no crossroads...
...effective way to halt destructive practices is to take on the institutions that bankroll them. "The private financial sector more than any other has the ability to begin the ecological U-turn modern society so desperately needs," says Ilyse Hogue, director of the global-finance campaign at Rainforest Action Network (RAN), which led the fight against JPMorgan Chase. Yet even as they have publicly confronted big financial institutions, green groups--many of which belong to a loose collection of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) known as BankTrack--have privately collaborated with banks to jointly tackle environmental and social concerns...
...large volume of virus-related e-mail has been plaguing Harvard accounts in recent days as two viruses have infected many computers on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) network...
...behind the virus “root”, or full access, to those machines, Davis said. He added that such “root kits” are a tool commonly used in “Denial-of-service” (DoS) attacks, which seek to disrupt a network by overloading it, thereby causing users to lose service...
Davis said that a virus whose mission is to spread a political message rather than merely propagate itself is “a little bit unusual.” He added that Harvard’s FAS Computer Services (HASCS) still recommends that network users never click on the links in these e-mails, even though they do not appear to be infectious...