Word: similars
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...Jersey Hacker Caught Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old hacker, was indicted on Aug. 17, along with two Russian co-conspirators, in what is believed to be the largest retail-store theft in U.S. history. Gonzalez, who had been arrested on similar charges before, allegedly cracked the databases of 7-Eleven, two other retail chains and a New Jersey--based credit-card-processing company to steal some 130 million credit-card numbers...
...commits a similar error. He condemns comparing Asians, who earn higher incomes than whites, to blacks, who earn lower incomes, because “Asian Americans and African Americans have different group histories.” But later, he concludes, “[I]t is foolish to believe all Asian Americans are anything—except perhaps individuals...
...Szonyi will now be able to recruit graduate students from Asia and the United States and train them in his method of study. He said he also hopes to establish a summer program that will encourage students to travel to China to examine history in a similar way. “Szonyi helps to prepare undergraduates learn about Chinese culture first hand,” said East Asian Languages and Civilizations Professor Peter K. Bol, who teaches a course with Szonyi at the College. Szonyi is currently studying the social history of the Ming Dynasty military. He has traced local...
...While University-wide calendar reform was being considered, the idea of having academic programming—similar to that offered at MIT or Williams—was suggested by the calendar reform committee. After the revised calendar was adopted, ideas for programming were discussed, but with the University facing rising financial hardship last fall, it became clear that official college programming would be off the table...
...Similarly, the boom times of the late 1990s and 2000s—first the technology bubble, then the real estate bubble—were driven by over-leveraging and willful ignorance. Like PEDs of baseball’s elite, the acronyms of the financial world—CDOs, CDSs, LBOs, etc.—were not skills or products in and of themselves. Rather, like PEDs, they were once-exotic, unregulated tools that allowed really smart people to make a ton of money and marginally smart people to come along for the ride, eventually becoming common and insidiously far-reaching...