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...fact, because online forum participants rarely know one another and often live on different continents, threats are rarely serious. Partly for that reason, King maintains that online exchanges - even ugly ones - facilitate communication and understanding. "The Internet removes the threat of physical harm and thus offers an unprecedented opportunity for the development of new ideas for conflict mediation," she says...
...public, and every pair of eyes on every human being is doing surveillance on you. It’s just the way it is. I don’t understand this misplaced notion of privacy there.” The Boston Globe reported that opposition from residents has thus far prevented the installation of 12 cameras Brookline. The Brookline town selectmen will vote on Jan. 13 whether to become only the second municipality in the country to reject federal funding for Homeland Security cameras. The only city that has done so to date is Washington, D.C. —Staff...
...filing the motion for an extension, Fitzgerald revealed that the investigation, begun in 2003, involves many more suspects than the two thus far charged - Blagojevich and his resigned chief of staff John Harris. Reports are surfacing that the probe is widening beyond the governor into the dealings of his brother Robert, who ran his campaign fund. The motion also noted that "thousands of phone calls were intercepted between late-October 2008 and early-December 2008," that confidential witnesses were used as part of the case and that "multiple witnesses have come forward in recent weeks to discuss their knowledge...
Because our knowledge of the mind's afflictions remains so limited, psychologists - even when writing in academic publications - still deploy metaphors to understand difficult disorders. And possibly the most difficult of all to fathom - and thus one of the most creatively named - is the mysterious-sounding borderline personality disorder (BPD). University of Washington psychologist Marsha Linehan, one of the world's leading experts on BPD, describes it this way: "Borderline individuals are the psychological equivalent of third-degree-burn patients. They simply have, so to speak, no emotional skin. Even the slightest touch or movement can create immense suffering...
...Hamas is just as adamant. Its four delegates returned from Cairo to Damascus and their Gaza bunkers resolved to fight on. Israel says it has identified at least 200 Hamas members who have been killed thus far, but a Hamas official in Damascus told TIME, "So far we have only lost 60 martyrs. We're prepared to lose many more." Advancing Israeli troops have had to thread through complicated Hamas defenses of roadside bombs and booby-trapped houses, and they are using robots to clear Hamas' maze of tunnels...