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...Representative Curtis Weldon told CNN this week following closed-door hearings he held to study recent waves of cyber-attacks on the Pentagon's computer networks. Well, not quite. The hearings did reveal a new and "more systemic" pattern of assaults, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, but nothing that should cause the nation to panic. "The Pentagon is simply learning that hacker probes are a cost of doing business over the Internet," he says. "These probes will continue to happen, and the military is just going to have to put up better cyber-guardrails...
...Every committee feels it has to have its representation of women," Thompson says...
...Even if there were opportunities for economies of scale, I don't think [the Faculty] would go for it," says Thompson...
...Thompson says that at an institution like Harvard, where change comes slowly, the administration is unlikely to dismantle the committee system anytime soon. Even the handful of committees that Thompson identifies as superfluous are hard to disband, she says...
...hard to get rid of things around here. It's easy to grow things, [but] it's hard to cut them," Thompson says...