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...Porter’s Lowell House tutor, Mark D. Hempstead, was only aware of the theft in his house, but wrote in an e-mailed statement that he had responded to the incident by telling his students “to lock their doors, not to allow individuals to piggyback in behind them, and to backup their data.” Both Porter and Rohr agreed that the worst part of the thefts was losing all the data they had accumulated on their computers. “I got a new one, but I didn’t have...
Some of this does not sit well with Washington. The U.S. considers Ethiopia its "biggest partner" in Africa, according to the Addis-based official. That relationship allowed U.S. Special Forces to piggyback on Ethiopia's operations in Somalia to launch two air strikes in January against one or more of the three fugitive al-Qaeda leaders believed to be on the Kenya-Somalia border. But, as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer has said, Washington opposed the invasion of Somalia. "We urged the Ethiopian military not to go into Somalia," said Frazer last month. "They did so because...
...Even conceding the case for a military draft, there is a problem. The problem is that the military has no use for more than a small fraction of draft-age men and women. So if you are going to piggyback some vast national service plan on the military's need for relatively few recruits, what do you do with the rest of them? There are, it seems to me, just three possibilities: give them useful jobs that someone else is already doing; give them useful jobs that currently are not being done; or give them make-work jobs...
...mobile start-ups is finding ways to release consumers from the carriers' grip--by using the Web to get around carrier control and by training users to switch carriers for better add-ons. Other new services, though, still rely on the carriers because they are installed on phones or piggyback on the carriers' networks...
...iPod raffle. After the hour-long wedding ceremony and tea ceremony were recreated, and their respective cultural aspects explained through translation by Lee, an iPod shuffle was randomly awarded to an audience member. The ceremony ended in accordance with Korean tradition, with the groom giving the bride a piggyback as they pretended to enter into their new life together. “The big thing to remember was when to bow,” said Otto. “That was really all we had to learn on our own.” —Staff writer Siodhbhra...