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...somebody finally eloped with her? On the morning of Aug. 21, 1911, Mona Lisa - arguably the world's most famous picture - was stolen from the Louvre. Who took her, how and why, is all part of the story told in two new books this spring. Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti (Knopf; 239 pages) sticks closely to the case and relates it luxuriously. In places it reads like a prose poem with narrative gallop. The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (Little, Brown; 376 pages...
...this situation, Subway is the place for you. Located in the Garage at the corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn streets, it’s only open until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, and it’s had some problems with chip theft since it opened this winter, but neither of these drawbacks change the fact that the five-dollar foot-long fills you like nothing else...
...cocaine baron had been a major figure in one of the paramilitary groups that began demobilizing after a 2003 accord with the government of President Alvaro Uribe. Those groups had been accused of a variety of crimes, including torture, land-theft and massacre But Don Mario refused to go through with the demobilization agreement, became a fugitive and continued running his drug-trafficking operation. Now Medellin is bracing for the struggle to determine his successor. What follows will be business as usual. "One capo goes down, another takes his place," says an ex-intelligence official...
Audi. The identity theft is a fantastic idea...also gotta love the distinctive LED's Audi has on a ton of its models...
When it comes to technology that scans for fraud, today's detection systems are largely focused on identity theft, hackers and account anomalies, according to Don Jackson, director of threat intelligence for Atlanta-based SecureWorks, information-security experts on financial cyberthreat. "The problem with financial-fraud technology is that it's only as good as how it's set up," Jackson says. "If it's set up for a high-volume and multiple-wire-transfers account, then it won't reveal anything strange when there's lots of activity, like Madoff's account. The only way to stop this kind...