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What do a small south Texas cable company, a suburban Virginia cable provider and Web-hosting servers in Delhi, Montreal, Brooklyn and New Jersey have in common? Since fighting broke out in Lebanon, they all have had their communications portals hijacked by Hizballah. Hackers from the militant Lebanese group are trolling the Internet for vulnerable sites to communicate with one another and to broadcast messages from Al-Manar television, which is banned in the U.S. In the cyberterrorism trade it is known as "whack-a-mole" - just like the old carnival game, Hizballah sites pop up, get whacked down...
WEEDS SEASON 1 YOUR HUSBAND drops dead, your cash runs out, your son is making faux terrorist videos--it's enough to drive a suburban mom to smoke pot. Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) sells it instead, to her eager neighbors, to keep her upscale lifestyle. Parker and creator Jenji Kohan pass up the chance for easy satire, making a wry, tender comedy about a woman trying to keep what she loves from going up in smoke...
...offers for a lift," says Matt Shaw, 32. "People are always stopping; I guess it breaks up the journey a bit for them." In the past 57 days, Shaw's journey has rarely stopped for long. On March 31, the registered nurse set out from his Ringwood home in suburban Melbourne with the aim of walking clockwise around Highway 1. "It's something I wanted to do before I got too much older and couldn't physically do it," he explains. "Friends thought I was insane, and family were a bit worried...
...only way to drown out the noise of the screaming family of four”, and “this is my half of the seat” is the appropriate translation for: “Stop opening your Wall Street Journal into my face, you suburban asshole.” Commuting with someone, especially if you don’t know them, is a shared, yet completely isolated experience, unparalleled outside of the confines of a bus or train. Everyday, I sit across the aisle from a man with a Brazilian flag sewed onto his backpack. Over the weekend...
Democrats say it is still early and promise that their candidates will be talking more about the stem-cell issue--and pouring money into it--in the fall, especially in a handful of crucial suburban races outside Philadelphia, Chicago and Denver. And even before then, stem cells have played a role in the swing state of Missouri, which had been trending Republican. The business establishment, which wants to promote the state as a center for biotechnology with research hubs in St. Louis, Kansas City and Columbia, last year was instrumental in putting on the ballot a proposed constitutional amendment that...