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...crashing down. Graham Cluley, a computer security expert, likened the attack to "15 fat men trying to get through a revolving door at the same time." The attacks do no lasting damage - user data aren't compromised, and the site isn't down for long. Once the fat men stop rushing the doors, everything returns to normal. (See the top 10 celebrity Twitter feeds...
...glass. But given a chance to swim with invertebrates and not get stung, would you? If you have a little backbone - and have enough time and money to make your way to the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau - the answer really ought to be yes. (Read "Palau: Next Stop After Gitmo...
...high-profile reactor it's building in Finland, but also to raise more than $10 billion in new capital and weather the loss of an important industrial partner. All that has raised concerns that CEO Anne Lauvergeon - who fused a disparate collection of firms into the first one-stop-shop nuclear conglomerate, winning plaudits and the nickname "Atomic Anne" along the way - has dangerously overreached. "Areva had built a big lead and a lot of momentum coming into this nuclear renaissance, but the various problems it has encountered, and advances by its competitors, are eating that away," says Alex Barnett...
...lift nuclear-generated power from its current 11 gigawatts to 86 gigawatts by 2020 - an increase equivalent to France's current total output. China is already adding 14 reactors to the 11 it operates, including three third-generation installations supplied by Areva and Westinghouse. And it won't stop there: Beijing has signed on for an additional 35 plants to be built over the next decade, and is studying a further 80. (See pictures of China's wild side...
...Kibaki insisted during his announcement Monday that the decree does not mean courts will stop issuing death sentences. Indeed, judges will still be obligated to do so even for seemingly minor offenses, including cases of armed robbery where thieves have stolen chickens while wielding nothing more than wooden clubs. Still, the move allows Kibaki to sidestep a thorny political issue: While the death penalty remains popular among Kenyans, he has been loathe to incur criticism from human rights groups by signing execution orders...