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...person. That is a lonely little boy named Isaiah, who lives in her apartment building. One day Smilla comes home from work and finds Isaiah dead, the victim of a fall from their building?s rooftop. An accident, the police insist. A murder, her intuition tells her. This suspicion is confirmed by the increasingly hostile behavior of the authorities as she begins to investigate the case. It will come as no surprise to devotees of the paranoid thriller?is there any other kind nowadays??that the victim is accidentally privy to information that threatens the secret plans of a powerful...
...person. That is a lonely little boy named Isaiah, who lives in her apartment building. One day Smilla comes home from work and finds Isaiah dead, the victim of a fall from their building?s rooftop. An accident, the police insist. A murder, her intuition tells her. This suspicion is confirmed by the increasingly hostile behavior of the authorities as she begins to investigate the case. It will come as no surprise to devotees of the paranoid thriller?is there any other kind nowadays??that the victim is accidentally privy to information that threatens the secret plans of a powerful...
...browsers, and almost impossible for Web publishers. As for electronic mail, which, due to its design, is easier to "spoof" with anonymous messages, there are simple ways to authenticate messages to confirm their senders' identity. Internet users ought to be educated to treat any anonymous or unauthenticated mail with suspicion and caution. For those who truly take offense to anonymous or unauthenticated messages, software filtering is also easy to set up. The mailing list mentioned in the article could have been set up with a simple restriction against unauthorized submissions; the fact that the restriction was not in place implies...
Early Thursday morning it hits me: once again, there are no women in my classes. I start counting, and after a pair of sections and a lecture, the grand total confirms my suspicion. In my three Thursday liberal arts classes there are 62 men and 16 women. Alas, some days it's hard to believe there's anything approaching an even number of male and female undergraduates at Harvard...
...picket lines in the first six weeks. While issues like pay and job security were easy for the public to understand, the unions also opposed changes that are generally considered management's prerogative. The result of such tactics, says TIME's Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter, was a suspicion among Detroit's historically pro-union citizens that this was a strike for its own sake. McWhirter reports that circulation and advertising at the papers, while improving, are still down about 15 percent, and hundreds of striking employees have taken pay cuts at other jobs. "In this strike, all come...