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...Norwich, Conn. local received his bachelor’s degree at Yale in 1930 and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1931, before going on to obtain a doctorate from the University at Gottingen, Germany...
Computers connected to the FAS network must automatically obtain a new IP address every few hours. If a computer attempting to do this is near a device broadcasting erroneous IP addresses—in the same House, for example—one of these “fake” IP addresses typically reaches that computer before a valid address from the network server does, Davis said...
Loss of privacy on the internet has certainly been a matter of growing concern lately. At Harvard, the impetus may well have been the January discovery by the Crimson that flawed polling software from iCommons could be used to obtain personal information about students online, but in the world at-large concerns ranging from the sanctity of EZ-Pass statements to the privacy policies of the new CharlieCard system for frequent T riders have been levied in an increasingly audible voice...
...states in the Third World. For the U.S. it is a question of Moscow's riding roughshod over one of the fundamental understandings of dtente. At their 1972 summit, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed a declaration of principles that committed both sides to resist the temptation to "obtain unilateral advantage" over each other. But when the U.S.S.R. began moving into Africa in the mid-1970s--particularly into Ethiopia and Angola, which figured so prominently in Reagan's speech--the U.S. accused the Kremlin of "violating" the spirit of dtente, which was soon pronounced dead by numerous analysts...
...alternative." The letters complained that the hostages were being held without "proper exercise, sanitation, fresh air or balanced diet." The White House reaffirmed its longstanding policy against negotiating with terrorists, but Administration Spokesman Edward Djerejian nonetheless declared that the U.S. was prepared to "talk with the abductors themselves to obtain the release of the hostages." CHINA Stop-and-Go Reforms...