State Republican legislators want federal prosecutors to investigate the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection...
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
Label: Technology An excerpt from Exploding the Phoneby Phil Lapsley“Locke spent the next twenty-four hours in what felt like a scene from a 1940s detective movie: a barren room with nothing more than a wooden table, a chair for him, two chairs for his interrogators, and a bare lightbulb dangling from the ceiling. Sitting across from him, the FBI agent and the telephone security man worked hard to get him to...
The New Old Age Blog: In Blended Families, Responsibility Blurs
Label: HealthEvery year, Fran McDowell waited for the summer week when she would sing in a choral festival in the North Carolina mountains, then spend a few days in a lakeside cabin with close women friends.That getaway grew more complicated to arrange — but perhaps more necessary — after her husband, Herb Beadle, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. They had a “gloriously happy” marriage — her first, his second...
DealBook: U.S. Accuses S.&P. of Fraud in Suit on Loan Bundles
Label: BusinessThe Justice Department filed civil fraud charges late on Monday against the nation’s largest credit-ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, accusing the firm of inflating the ratings of mortgage investments and setting them up for a crash when the financial crisis struck.The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, is the first significant federal action against the ratings industry, which during...
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Scientists identify remains as those of King Richard III
Label: World LONDON – More than 500 years after his death in battle, scientists announced Monday that they had definitively identified a...
Amputee Soccer Players Face Their Prosthetists — On the Field
Label: Technology LONDON — The beautiful game was exactly that as amputee footballers took to a pitch in the heart of the city to challenge the men who made their prosthetics.Players on both sides of the field share a deep passion for the game Americans call soccer, and a deep respect for what their opponents have done. Three of the men on the field lost limbs to the game they love, and feel a debt of gratitude...
Ex-Israeli security chiefs speak out in Oscar documentary nominee
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (Reuters) – The Oscar-nominated documentary “The Gatekeepers” focuses on Israel, but its director says that all countries can gain insight about the risks that arise if secretive security agencies operate without adequate restraints.In “The Gatekeepers,” six former heads of Israeli internal security and intelligence agency Shin Bet reflect on their failures and successes in gathering information...
Medicines Co. Licenses Rights to Cholesterol Drug
Label: Health The drug, known as ALN-PCS, inhibits a protein in the body known as PCSK9. Such drugs might one day be used to treat millions of people who do not achieve sufficient cholesterol-lowering from commonly used statins, such as Lipitor. The Medicines Company will pay $25 million initially and as much as $180 million later if certain development and sales goals are met, under the deal expected to...
DealBook: New Details Suggest a Defense in SAC Case
Label: BusinessAt the center of the government’s insider trading case against a former portfolio manager at the hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors is a trade that directly involves Steven A. Cohen, the billionaire owner of the fund.New details about the case have emerged that could cast doubt on the way that trade has been portrayed by the authorities, suggesting a possible line of defense for the portfolio manager...
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