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...Those next couple of days I did whatever I could to help out. In total we spent a few months between Ground Zero and the Staten Island landfill, and it's the landfill that stands out in my mind the most. We would take a rake and sift through rubble. I remember finding a woman's hand and forearm, and a partial rib cage. I found lots of hair and scalp. Can anyone imagine they would ever have to rake a bunch of rubble in search for human remains? I wish I never had to do that. That...
...Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College. A study by the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute found 76% of employers watch you surf the Web and 36% track content, keystrokes and time spent at the keyboard. If that isn't creepy enough, 38% hire staff to sift through your e-mail. And they act on that knowledge. A June survey by Forrester Research and Proofpoint found that 32% of employers fired workers over the previous 12 months for violating e-mail policies by sending content that posed legal, financial, regulatory or p.r. risks...
...Alpine's Blackbird. Its female voice is pleasantly sultry, and is available in 18 different spoken languages. Like those other navigators, it has the Navteq mapset, which was quite useful in most cases. The user interface was a bit frustrating at times. It was hard to sift through the 1.5 million points of interest, and, during a route, I could never get what I call the "Mapquest" view - that is, a text itinerary of the turns it's planning to shout...
While computers sift through reams of transfers in the hunt for terrorism's big guns, the gumshoe task of proving guilt in Miami could be tricky. Some legal scholars suggest that the government's case creeps to the edge of entrapment. Would the accused have taken the bayat--al-Qaeda's loyalty oath--had they not been prompted to do so by the informant posing as an al-Qaeda operative? Is it possible that the defendants were more interested in money than in joining al-Qaeda? [As a hedge, charges were brought under both federal statute 18 U.S.C...
...cited Mayo Clinic study that shows that the likelihood of a doctor being sued for malpractice is correlated less with his actual medical talent than his bedside manner. Again, this does of course not mean intensive study is fruitless but rather that it is incomplete and insufficient. As I sift through eight semesters of study guides, preparing to head home this week, I realize that the greatest thing I hope I’ve learned from Harvard is that becoming a global citizen is not an academic endeavor. A life, no more than an education, should...