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...using data from voter registration lists and social-networking sites, and studying statistical patterns in the Social Security numbers (SSNs) of people who have died, researchers Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross have developed an algorithm that could potentially identify the SSNs of millions of people. Acquisti and Gross warn that "unless mitigating strategies are implemented, the predictability of SSNs exposes them to risks of identity theft on mass scales...
Whether he's stripping a car piece by piece, cutting open a boy's stomach to pull out an IED or joining some Brit mercenaries (led by Ralph Fiennes) in the desert, James is a marvel to see in action. He has the cool aplomb, analytical acumen and attention to detail of a great athlete or a master serial killer--anyway, some gifted obsessive. A quote from Iraq expert Chris Hedges that opens the film reads, "War is a drug." Movies often editorialize on this theme: the man who's a misfit back home but an efficient, imaginative killing machine...
...musicals.Mendillo pursued her undergraduate studies at Yale, where she dabbled in writing for the Yale Daily News and earned a degree in English literature. But during her junior summer, she interned at the Yale Investment Office—an experience that she credits with piquing her interest in finance. Ralph Earle III ’79, Mendillo’s husband whom she met in graduate school, says at one point she weighed the possibility of working toward a Ph.D. in English literature. But after being lured into the world of finance, Mendillo chose to pursue...
...Peters, Ralph •necessity for future "military attacks on the partisan media" is crazily envisioned...
...heart attack 1,000 ft. from the summit (29,029 ft., or 8,848 m, above sea level). Three years later, exhaustion foiled a second attempt at virtually the same height. But on May 21, the 65-year-old British adventurer (and third cousin of actors Joseph and Ralph Fiennes) finally scaled Everest, making him the first man to conquer the world's highest peak and cross the North and South Poles unaided. "I get vertigo and don't like looking down," he says of his time at the summit. "But if you are there, you might as well look...