Word: patterning
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...When [we] started bike patrols, bike crime went down significantly," Riley said. "It falls into a pattern. Thefts are down probably because of the bike officers being more readily visible...
...basically say we are at war," Representative Curtis Weldon told CNN this week following closed-door hearings he held to study recent waves of cyber-attacks on the Pentagon's computer networks. Well, not quite. The hearings did reveal a new and "more systemic" pattern of assaults, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, but nothing that should cause the nation to panic. "The Pentagon is simply learning that hacker probes are a cost of doing business over the Internet," he says. "These probes will continue to happen, and the military is just going to have to put up better cyber...
...Juanita Broadderick, the woman who says Bill Clinton raped her 21 years ago. Many felt that her story had been plausible, including apparently David Gergen, a former Clinton advisor. He said on "Larry King Live" the day after the interview, "It's not just this woman. It's a pattern...the nausea level on this is such that you really begin to feel...It's one thing if it were consensual. But this question of being predatory is...something we have to think about...it's a question about one's...psychological makeup and your spirituality...
Take the T to the New England Aquarium for a change of scenery. Observe ocean circulation and weather pattern images with the their new interactive satellite. Then watch the ocean deep on a towering IMAX screen after waddling back from the Little Blue Penguin exhibit. New England Aquarium, Central Wharf. 973-5200. Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday...
...dollars. A donation of $10 or $20 doesn't do more than light a classroom in the Science Center for half an hour. Rather, Harvard wants us to give to the Senior Gift for symbolic reasons. First, the Development Office hopes seniors will give now and so begin a "pattern of giving" that will continue throughout our (presumably long and prosperous) lifetimes. The idea is that donating to Harvard now gets you into the habit, and before you know it, you're writing a check every year...