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Nearly half of doctors may be more likely to protect their colleagues than their patients, according to a recent survey by researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital...
...while there is “no evidence that the intruders actually downloaded or acquired any of this information...the intruders had the opportunity and the tools to do so.” Admissions officers encouraged those whose Social Security numbers were compromised to closely monitor their credit and protect themselves against identity theft. The e-mail suggested that students place a fraud alert on their credit reports, providing links to credit bureaus. Duke also advised applicants to change their passwords elsewhere if they are the same as the one used on the Duke Law School Web site. After...
...editors: Re: “Pulling the Trigger,” editorial, Nov. 30. The reason for the Second Amendment is to protect the people from their own government. Our country is the oldest constitutional democracy, and one of the reasons is the Second Amendment. Look at cities like Washington, D.C. that has forbidden guns, or look at the Virginia Tech shooting, in which the killer didn’t abide by the rule not to carry a gun. These places become playgrounds for criminals. Why do you think D.C. has such a high murder rate? The only people...
...Tape-recorder malfunction The government admits that Omar once gave his handler false information in order to protect a friend, according to the complaint. It was a one-time lapse, the complaint says, and Omar "has proven to be credible and reliable." But there are other red flags. "Clearly the informant had the opportunity to activate and deactivate the recording device," says Rocco Cipparone Jr., defense attorney for Mohamed Shnewer, according to his knowledge of the evidence so far. If that is true, it raises questions about how closely the informant was supervised. (The U.S. Attorney's office declined...
...Against the barrage of criticism from the Russians, Pentagon officials have always insisted that the purpose of the missile-defense system is to protect Europe and the U.S. from an Iranian missile attack. "It's not the Russians that we're worried about," Air Force Lieutenant General Henry "Trey" Obering, chief of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, said over breakfast earlier this year. "It is the Iranian missiles that we're worried about." But if the best those missiles could carry is conventional explosives, the case for deploying the missile defense system in the face of the heavy diplomatic...