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...charged with mail and wire fraud connected to the way they had purchased bacteria for one of Kurtz's projects. The indictment made no mention of terrorism. This spring, after the case made headlines, and artists and activists raised $300,000 for his defense, a U.S. District Court judge threw out the indictment, calling it "insufficient". The U.S. Attorney's office in Buffalo announced in June that it would not appeal...
When blogs reported in April that Rose had finally delivered the album to his record company, Skwerl implied on his blog that he'd post the tracks if he got them. So someone who works for the record company sent them to Skwerl, and Skwerl threw them up on a player so people could listen but not download (though, of course, they found a way). The traffic crashed his server in 10 minutes. Within the hour, someone from Rose's camp called. "He was pretty cool. He seemed to be kind of like a warning-shot thing," says Skwerl...
...Zuckerberg had started "the facebook" while an undergrad at Harvard as a social network for Ivy League students, then moved to Palo Alto, Calif., in 2004 to turn it into a business. It subsequently threw open its doors to everyone and made the guts of its underlying code accessible to developers, creating a massive platform for applications. (And making some of those developers a lot of dough: SocialMedia, an advertising network that represents the apps makers, has paid out over $8 million to 1,000 developers in less than a year.) The network now has 80 million active members, surpassing...
...disproportionate access to GI Bill advantages that were available to returning GIs. While the government was willing to pay for college and housing loans, it was unwilling to change the laws that prevented most nonwhite GIs from taking advantage of this money. In fact, the GI Bill in 1947 "threw open the doors of élite academies" only to the white masses. The same was true in the housing market, where discriminatory practices kept most people of color out of the flood of new housing, particularly in the suburbs. Kathryn Kaatz, Wayzata, Minn...
...advantages that were available to returning GIs. The sad truth is that while the government was willing to pay for college and housing loans, it was unwilling to change the laws that prevented most nonwhite GIs from taking advantage of this money. In fact, the GI Bill in 1947 "threw open the doors of élite academies" only to the white masses. The same was true in the housing market, where discriminatory practices kept most people of color out of the flood of new housing, particularly in the suburbs. Kathryn Kaatz, WAYZATA, MINN...