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...Crackdowns have increased in the past year after some 20,000 Montagnards held a week of protests against religious persecution. One night last year, a 16-year-old named A'Noul (she asked for her full name to be withheld) was at home in a village in Dak Lak province when three vans roared up and two dozen Vietnamese police spilled out. They burst into her house, swept books and clothes onto the floor and said, as A'Noul recalls, "'If you don't give us your Bible, we will take you and put you in prison.'" She adds...
...revival. After several years of stagnation, Malaysia's GDP will grow at a healthy 6% in 2002, economists project. The country's trade surplus is swelling and international bond rating agencies have been bumping up Malaysia's grades. More important, foreign investors are actually putting their money?so long withheld?back into the country. A recent bond issue by Malaysia's national oil giant Petronas was heavily subscribed. The Kuala Lumpur stock market?shunned by international investors after Mahathir temporarily imposed strict controls on the movement of money out of Malaysia in September 1998?has soared, rising about a third...
...exploit those flaws, Ferguson chose not to publish. He calls the situation "Orwellian": "Given the problems we have with lack of computer security, we need more research into it, not less." "We're seeing an erosion of the right to practice computer science," says Princeton's Ed Felten, who withheld research on flaws in security technology after the music industry threatened to sue. "You hear terms like tampering and hacking used to describe things that have long been done for legitimate purposes." The developing legal framework discourages such research by failing to distinguish well between legitimate and illegitimate exploitation...
...NSLU turned down the Minnesotans' FISA request. Rowley's letter does not provide any specifics to back up the allegation that the supervisor altered or withheld evidence. (Only after Sept. 11 did the FBI successfully obtain a warrant to search Moussaoui's belongings; among other things, the search turned up crop-dusting information, a letter to Moussaoui from an al-Qaeda operative in Malaysia and a notebook that contained an alias eventually traced to the roommate of hijacker Mohamed Atta.) According to Rowley, the supervisor has since been promoted. FBI officials refused to comment on the tampering charge last week...
...family and friends not to enroll in a clinical trial. If you are taking part in a trial, you should be aware that your safety is often the last priority. And never forget that you are not a patient being treated; you are a subject in an experiment. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Tampa...