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There are many avenues the government may take legally, if the NSA comes across a call pattern that warrants further investigation within the U.S. If the NSA wants to wiretap domestic calls, the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requires it or the FBI to seek a special court warrant. The FISA court received 10,617 such applications from 1995 to 2004 and approved all but four of them. And under the Patriot Act, if the FBI certifies that it has grounds, it may also collect more information, such as the customer's name, address and billing information. Last year...
...What’s a problem for me is when 6,000 disabled people are walking the street because there’s a pattern of noncompliance. That’s discrimination,” she says. She adds that the Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities is treated “like a junkyard...
Amaral and colleague Judy Van de Water believe they are onto a major discovery about the origins of at least one type of autism - a strongly familial variety. They have detected aberrant antibodies in the blood of kids from families with a pattern of ASD and, significantly, in mothers with more than one autistic child. "These antibodies are actually raised against proteins in the fetal brain," says Amaral, who recently submitted a paper on the discovery. The working hypothesis is that these antibodies may alter brain development in ways that lead to autism. If correct, the finding could lead...
Countless conversations I’ve had with Harvard students about Kaavya Viswanathan’s plagiarism controversy have followed a similar pattern. Someone opens the gossip-fest exclaiming, “Did you hear that the girl with the $500,000 book deal plagiarized 40 passages from someone else’s book?” Then someone else chimes in, “How could she think that she could get away with that?” There is usually some mention of, “What she did was so wrong. I mean, it?...
...Office has largely succeeded for the second time in as many tries (the Harvard State Fair being the first). With the elections for the newly-created College Events Board scheduled to begin any day now, the challenge for future social planners will be making sure this pattern continues...