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...factor in the case of young people right out of high school: parents often steer their kids away from the military. "Mom and Dad understand they're going to go right into basic training," Jones says, "and then be eligible to deploy right away." Even if parents don't object, he says, "it's human nature to flee from risk. It takes a special type of person to join during this time...
Irina Malinovskaya, 22, a senior at Penn’s Wharton School of Business, faces first-degree murder charges for killing Irina Zlotnikov, 24, with a “blunt object,” New Castle County, Del., police said...
...from Internet Explorer to a browser like Firefox—a request they made not on the basis of the comparative ease of use of the browsers or on the slick new features, but rather because of their relative security levels. Microsoft’s browser has been the object of a large number of security vulnerabilities over the past months—vulnerabilities which not only increase the risk that an individual computer can be compromised but which, as a result, also drive up traffic levels and strain computing resources on campus networks as the number of infected machines...
DIED. SHIING-SHEN CHERN, 93, mathematician whose "new geometry" theories on how the curvature of a surface can help determine an object's shape influenced fields from theoretical physics to computer graphics; in Tianjin, China. As a teacher, Chern was also influential--so much so that Robert Uomini, a former student of his at the University of California, Berkeley, set up a chair for him at the school with funds from the $22 million Uomini won in the California state lottery...
...staff...never objected to my [using the terminals],” he says in the suit. “I never saw them object to anyone else doing so.” In the suit, he maintains that he’s used the depository collection for years to conduct policy research as part of his work filing lawsuits against government agencies, and says he’s been a “respectful and cooperative” user of the library who has never drawn complaints from library staff...