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Privacy advocates have voiced concerns about the possibility of the data being stolen and used to defraud the patients involved. While acknowledging the seriousness of this possibility, Mandl said that “security is paramount in our model.” He explained that the data will be stored on highly secure servers with firewalls and that each file will be individually encrypted...
...Pudding’s tradition is paramount, but the organization has succeeded through its ability to seize new opportunities. That’s true of our Man and Woman of the Year ceremonies, our new theater—pretty much everything we do,” said Blickstead...
...allow Iran to maintain a nuclear energy program but not the capacity to produce fuel that could also be used for nuclear weapons. Iran has continued to insist that it has an "inalienable right" under the NPT to enrich its own uranium for reactor fuel - enrichment capability is of paramount concern to the West, because it would give Iran the technical means to create weapons-grade nuclear material. That stance hardened with the election of conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who last week insisted that Iran would never give up the "right" to enrich uranium and scoffed at Western concerns that...
...stories. The present plan, however, calls for both. The current scheme poses serious risks to the safety and quality of life of local residents. Due to the narrowness of the proposed alleyway between Leverett Towers and the new building (used by pedestrians night and day), safety must be a paramount concern. Further, one must consider the endangerment of the entire neighborhoods quality of life. There will be a decrease in natural light from the shadow cast by the new dormitory, and Leverett residents will encounter a newfound lack of privacy by having neighbors with windows only a few yards away...
...folded into the massive new department, with its 181,000 employees and $40 billion annual budget. DHS aides insist the department has paid as much attention to preparing for natural disasters as terrorist attacks, but its allocation of resources suggests terrorism was the agency's, and the Secretary's, paramount focus. When Chertoff was nominated, Bush called him "a key leader in the war on terror...