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...origin of solitary confinement in the U.S. is actually benign. It was the Philadelphia Quakers of the 19th century who dreamed up the idea, establishing a program at the city's Walnut Street prison under which inmates were housed in isolation in the hope of providing them with an opportunity for quiet contemplation during which they would develop insight into their crimes. That's not what has happened...
...sender, Mumma was an Internet pro. Since 1997 he had hosted Web pages, run e-mail services and maintained an antispam website that listed hundreds of addresses whose owners did not want unsolicited mail. He knew Oklahoma and federal law generally banned e-mails that lied about their origin or their paths through the Internet, and he wasn't shy about using the law to make a point. The text of the offending e-deal revealed that it had come from Cruise.com a subsidiary of Omega World Travel in Fairfax, Va. Mumma called Omega's general counsel, the curiously named...
...have to buy pornography, or read “How to Make Love Like a Porn Star” (another ReganBooks product), or watch “American Psycho.” Good thing Murdoch wasn’t around during the publication of “The Origin of Species,” or we might never have been able to read that, either...
...popularity of the Facebook group “Cage Free Eggs at Harvard”— which boasted 244 members as of yesterday evening—is any indication, Harvard students care about the origin of their eggs. Two weeks ago, AnnaLise S. Hoopes, a first-year student at the Graduate School of Education, initiated a campaign for cage-free eggs with the creation of the online group and a flurry of e-mails to undergraduate listservs. Hoopes argued that although it results in cheaper eggs, battery cage egg production—in which chickens are raised...
...unusual concentration of Indian workers. Some 13% of all private, venture-backed start-up companies in the U.S. are founded by Indian immigrants, according to a study released this month by the National Venture Capital Association. Many of Silicon Valley's high-tech leaders are of Indian origin, among them Prabhakar Raghavan, 45, head of Yahoo!'s research division. After finishing college in India, Raghavan migrated to the U.S. and earned a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining IBM. "Indians are looked upon not only as technical wizards but, beyond that, as people...