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...daughter's details. It was pretty stressful experience - they lost her name, her date of birth, my name, my bank account details, our address. It really freaked me out and made me think that if that type of data can be lost with a kid that age, what risk are the rest of us at? (See the top 10 British open moments...
...times, Walcott’s obsession with the effects of age runs the risk of becoming too personal, or even self-indulgent. Details of his physical ailments and his fear of waning virility can detract from his deeper meditations on his hopes, his regrets, and his poetry. At one point, he describes “a furious itch that raises welts” over his body; elsewhere he writes, “My lust is in great health, but, if it happens / that all my towers shrivel to dribbling sand, / joy will still bend the cane-reeds with my pens...
...begun studying how to protect its fleet from such an attack. "A nuclear device detonated at an altitude in excess of 40 miles generates High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP), which is the focus of the U.S. Navy program," a recent Pentagon report says. Doing nothing, it warns, poses a risk "at the highest level." Hemp and high? You can't say the Navy doesn't have a sense of humor...
...Monday, "We have to continue fighting the terrorists without pleasantries, liquidating them without emotion or hesitation." This suggests that a new security regime could be on its way to the North Caucasus. Such a response could mark another turning point in the long-running conflict - and runs the risk of renewing a quagmire the government thought it was finally starting to escape...
Michael Looney, the head of the mortuary-affairs investigative unit in Haiti, says the site has become too dangerous to continue excavation and poses increasing risk to his crew and to fragile homes in the surrounding area. His team is now returning to the U.S. "The success was so great," says Looney of the bodies they recovered. At one of the major recovery sites, the Hotel Montana, in the upper-class area of Pétionville, Looney's team recovered the remains of 17 Americans, including students from Lynn University...