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...breach was not an isolated incident. "Data security is in shambles," says Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC), which has posted a list of more than 150 serious data compromises so far in 2006. The breaches include lost bank backup tapes, hacking losses, stolen laptops, and releases of private information like AOL's. "This latest leak gives us a window into the sensitivity of search strings," Givens says. "We all use search engines and don't think about what someone could learn about the most sensitive aspects of our lives by studying what we search for over...
...next time I visited Cuba was in 1983 as a journalist. Attending a social gathering, I saw Raúl and Vilma again. At first sight, Raúl, wearing his green fatigues, seemed serious and stern as he went through the official greetings required of him. But later I saw him talking to people and laughing. That is when I realized how different he seemed from my first impression. You could see how he was enjoying the jokes and the bantering. He intrigued...
...basically said, Look, things are crazy here," says the star, who has not yet adopted the argot of development experts. (Raising Malawi is probably the only aid organization with a staff member who would describe some poorly built wells as "chintzy.") "Victoria said we've got a serious problem here with the orphans and we need your help. And a lightbulb went...
...hard to understand the vogue for spiritualism that developed in the late 19th century. With religion under serious challenge from science, the afterlife--which religion affirmed and science scoffed at--became a subject of nervous fascination. Respectable people held parlor séances. Celebrity spiritualists like D.D. Home even made house calls. In 1869 three witnesses in a London residence reported that Home levitated, floated out a window and drifted back in through the window of another room...
...trio of scholars formed the first serious investigatory body, the British Society for Psychical Research. Its purpose: to subject psychic phenomena to something like scientific testing, conducted with an open mind but a skeptical spirit. Three years later, an American society was formed along even more stringent lines, with membership consisting of scientists, not scholars. The best known among them was philosopher and psychologist William James, brother of the novelist Henry and one of the enduring figures of American intellectual history...