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Financial aid recipients at Harvard will have an easier--but not necessarily safer--time applying for loans next year...
...braver than they used to be about e-commerce, and yet one out of five surveyed is still uncomfortable buying on the Web. So for all the scaredy-cats out there, here's a news flash: typing your credit-card number into landsend.com is just as safe - if not safer - than reading the number to a catalog's sales rep over the phone. If you really want to go out on a limb, hand your Visa to a waiter. "Consumer fears are overblown," says David Schatsky, e-commerce analyst at Jupiter Communications. "There's not a whole heck...
...also agreed that foreign journalists are much safer in Colombia than local ones, as he and journalists like him are not breaking new stories or doing the same type of investigative reporting as someone from the local press...
...Time Warner, parent company of this magazine) and Excite@Home are working on bigger and better firewalls to help stop snooping. Since they're twice as fast as DSL phone lines, cable modems are worth the risk. They will never be hackproof, but they should be a lot safer by the time my next birthday rolls around. This year, I'll have to settle for socks again...
...SAFER SCHOOLS AND STREETS Fifty-two percent of American teenagers say a mass killing like the one at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., could happen at their school, but only 9% say the biggest problem facing them is violence, down from 22% in 1994, according to a New York Times/CBS News study released last week. Thirty-one percent say the main concern facing teenagers is drugs, and 21% say it is peer pressure. The study indicates that perceptions of teen violence are finally conforming to the drop in such crimes in recent years...