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...taken seriously, and trusted enough to warrant a trip to Khost by the CIA's second-in-command in Afghanistan, an unidentified mother of three, to attend the spy's debriefing at a U.S. base. But al-Balawi, who was allowed onto Forward Operating Base Chapman without a body search, was wearing a suicide belt and blew himself up as soon as he encountered his CIA and Jordanian spymasters. (See the top 10 news stories...
Borucki heads the Kepler Mission, a space-based planet-hunting telescope that went into solar orbit last spring to search for distant worlds like our own. While the first five worlds detected are nothing like Earth, nobody expected them to be. What's important, Borucki declared, was that "these five new exoplanets come from the first six weeks of data." An additional eight months of Kepler observations are already in the can and awaiting analysis, meaning many more planets are undoubtedly lurking on hard drives at the NASA Ames Research Center in California, where Kepler is headquartered. "We're going...
Opponents also argue that the scanners are an invasion of privacy because, in addition to concealed packages, they can also reveal the curves of a person's body on screens viewed by security officers. One British politician, Philip Bradbourn, has likened it to a "virtual strip search." "[The] technology has the potential to turn a legitimate security concern into an unacceptable peepshow for security industries," the Conservative said...
Some E.U. airports, including Schiphol in Amsterdam and Heathrow in London, already offer passengers the option of walking through a body scanner instead of undergoing a physical pat-down search. But in 2008, when the European Commission suggested devising regulations on the use of scanners in the E.U., European Parliament members voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution calling the machines an affront to passengers' rights. The Commission has since launched a study on whether the scanners violate people's privacy, but the results have yet to be released...
...called Get Out of Cambridge (like you didn't think about it during finals), gtrot.com has its humble beginnings in a final project whose success soon outgrew its name. After winning a competition for student entrepreneurs, Gtrot went live in September 2009 as a website in which users can search top travel brands for the best prices and then store their bookings on a personal profile to share and compare plans with friends...