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Jul 29, 2010	Nuclear Forensics Skill Is Declining in U.S., Report Says QUOTE: “Although U.S. nuclear forensics capabilities are substantial and can be improved, right now they are fragile, underresourced and, in some respects, deteriorating,” the report warns. “Without strong leadership, careful planning and additional funds, these capabilities will decline.”	New York Times
Mar 02, 2010	Scientists Taking Steps to Defend Work on Climate QUOTE: For months, climate scientists have taken a vicious beating in the media and on the Internet, accused of hiding data, covering up errors and suppressing alternate views...Tentatively and grudgingly, they are beginning to engage their critics, admit mistakes, open up their data and reshape the way they conduct their work.	New York Times
Sep 15, 2009	Cracking the Spine of Libel (The wild Side) QUOTE: English libel laws create particular difficulties for science journalists. Science, after all, is about evaluating evidence. Science journalism, sometimes, requires pointing out when evidence is weak or absent.	New York Times
Aug 19, 2009	Writing style fingerprint tool easily fooled QUOTE: Historians, literary detectives and even courts of law rely on methods that identify the author of a text by their writing style. But a new study suggests that some of these so-called stylometry techniques are easily fooled...	New Scientist
Aug 07, 2009	Bits: Twitter Attack Said to Be Aimed at Blogger QUOTE: The meltdown was directed at a single blogger who has voiced his support for the Republic of Georgia in that country’s continuing conflict with Russia....In an interview with The Guardian, the blogger said he believed the strike was an attempt to silence his criticism on the behavior of Russia in the conflict over the South Ossetia region in Georgia, which began a year ago on Friday.	New York Times
Jul 30, 2009	File Sharing Leaks Sensitive Federal Data, Lawmakers Are Told QUOTE: The information is often exposed inadvertently by people who download the technology to share music or other files, not realizing that the "peer-to-peer" software also makes the contents of their computers available to other users, experts said....Robert Boback said the use of such software is being exploited by foreign governments for espionage and other purposes.	Washington Post
Jul 28, 2009	TierneyLab: Software That Cares QUOTE: The specter of intelligent machines seems to draw passionate comments from every direction. This weekend I had an intriguing discussion with a well-known Internet figure who felt that my article sensationalized the idea that job loss might be a consequence of A.I. or automation. Buthe also felt that society needs to rethink its view of the value of work.	New York Times
Jul 22, 2009	FDA Cautions Public About Electronic Cigarettes QUOTE: The Food and Drug Administration said a new type of "smokeless" nicotine product detected carcinogens and a chemical used in antifreeze that is toxic to humans. Officials at the FDA and other public health experts cautioned consumers against using the products, saying that the health effects of electronic cigarettes are unknown.	Washington Post
Jul 21, 2009	Doctor's Orders: Want Treatment? Just Sign This No-Complaint Contract . . . QUOTE: As a defensive measure, some physicians are requiring patients to sign broad agreements that prohibit online postings or commentary in any media outlet "without prior written consent." Critics call the documents gag orders. Many experts say they are both unethical and unenforceable.	Washington Post
Jul 12, 2009	At Swoopo, Shopping's Steep Spiral Into Addiction QUOTE: Someone's beaten you to it: the folks at Swoopo.com. It's an online auction site that fiendishly plays on every irrational impulse buyers have to draw them in to what might be the crack cocaine of online shopping sites.	Washington Post
Jul 11, 2009	Rosetta Stone Sues Google Over Trademarks in Searches QUOTE: Rosetta Stone, the Arlington language-learning software firm, said yesterday it has filed a lawsuit against Google for trademark infringement, alleging the Internet search giant allowed other companies to use Rosetta Stone's trademark brand for online advertisements without permission.	Washington Post
Jul 08, 2009	Funding Bill for Start-Ups Criticized: Venture Capitalists, Firms at Odds Over Who Should Get Grants QUOTE: Dozens of executives from small technology firms descended on the halls of Capitol Hill yesterday to protest a proposed change to a popular government program that they say is crucial to their survival during tough economic times....But the bill has sparked a debate over whether companies that have received venture capital financing should also be eligible for federal grants, which has so far been reserved for start-ups without large investors.	Washington Post
Jul 07, 2009	Rules on Stem Cell Research Are Eased: More Lines Eligible For Federal Funding QUOTE: The use of embryonic stem cells was not prohibited under the Bush administration, but federal funding was limited to a very small number of stem cell lines, which choked off most research. The new guidelines, issued by the National Institutes of Health, permit federal funding for research using many of the approximately 700 embryonic stem cell lines that are believed to be in existence. In a move that drew praise from advocates of stem cell research and bitter criticism from opponents, the NIH said it will allow the use of any existing stem cell line that was created ethically.	Washington Post
Jul 07, 2009	Key Senator Backs Telecom Probe: Concerns Grow in Congress Over Cellphone Carriers' Practices QUOTE: He called for the Justice Department to closely scrutinize future mergers and to investigate whether dominant cellphone carriers are stifling competition in violation of antitrust laws. Over the past three years, the number of national wireless carriers has dropped to four from seven, and the top four carriers serve nine out of 10 cellphone users.	Washington Post
Jul 04, 2009	Dismissal of MySpace Case 'Proper,' Defendant Says QUOTE: A Missouri mother said she never should have been prosecuted for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who ended up committing suicide. A federal judge this week acquitted Lori Drew of misdemeanor counts of accessing computers without authorization, finding that the law she allegedly violated was unconstitutionally vague. U.S. District Judge George Wu stressed that the ruling is tentative until he issues it in writing.	Washington Post
Jul 03, 2009	U.S. Joins Whistleblower Suit Alleging SAIC Rigged Contract QUOTE: SAIC, one of the Pentagon's largest contractors, conspired with federal officials to rig a $3.2 billion technology contract and tried to cover up the scheme by destroying documents and electronic records....The whistleblower suit alleges that the request for proposals was crafted to make it virtually impossible for any company besides SAIC to win.	Washington Post
Jul 02, 2009	Cybersecurity Plan to Involve NSA, Telecoms: DHS Officials Debating The Privacy Implications QUOTE: But the program has provoked debate within DHS, the officials said, because of uncertainty about whether private data can be shielded from unauthorized scrutiny, how much of a role NSA should play and whether the agency's involvement in warrantless wiretapping during George W. Bush's presidency would draw controversy.	Washington Post
Jul 02, 2009	Hard Line on Inmate Cellphones: Md. Prisons Seek to Jam Signals; Industry Warns of Effect on Regular Users QUOTE: But jamming cellphone signals, except when carried out by some federal agencies, is illegal in the United States. The wireless industry has resisted calls to revisit that prohibition, saying jamming is inexact and could interfere with service to legitimate users.	Washington Post
Jul 01, 2009	Radio Ratings Get More Scrutiny: Lawmakers Question Accuracy of Arbitron Data on Minorities QUOTE: The new system has caused turmoil in the radio industry; many stations that were popular under the former system have seen their ratings plummet under the new one. Arbitron says the devices give advertisers a more accurate and detailed look at a radio station's audience size, but some radio companies are complaining that the PPM service fails to include minority listeners.	Washington Post
Jun 30, 2009	Government Launches Web Site to Track IT Spending QUOTE: The site is the latest effort by Kundra and the Office of Management and Budget to make data about the government's projects and performance visible to the public. Citizens and Web developers can parse the data, combine it with other data sets and publish the results on Web feeds or their Facebook profiles. The data also show which contracts were won through a competitive process or in a no-bid method, which has been criticized by good-government advocates for excluding firms from business opportunities.	Washington Post
Jun 30, 2009	Blood Samples Raise Questions of Privacy: Some Samples Are Stored and Used For Research Without Parents' Consent QUOTE: The programs enable doctors to save lives and prevent permanent neurological damage by diagnosing and treating the conditions early. Although parents are usually informed about the tests and often can opt out if they object for religious and other reasons, many give it little thought in the rush and exhaustion of a birth. And parents are generally not asked for permission to store the samples or use them for research.	Washington Post
Jun 27, 2009	Obama Seeks Input on Classification of Records QUOTE: The Declassification Policy Forum is the latest effort by the White House to include citizens in the policymaking process.....Noveck said she expects to hear from librarians, archivists and other record management experts that government officials would not otherwise consult.	Washington Post
Jun 27, 2009	Authoritarian Regimes Censor News From Iran QUOTE: pro-democracy protests that appeared to inspire and energize one another broke out in Eastern Europe, Burma, China and elsewhere. Not all evolved into full-fledged revolutions, but communist regimes fell in a broad swath of countries, and the global balance of power shifted. A similar infectiousness has shown up in subtle acts of defiance by democracy advocates around the world this week.	Washington Post
Jun 26, 2009	N.Y. to Pay for Eggs for Stem Cell Research: Policy Is a First Among States; Critics Fear That Women Will Be Exploited QUOTE: New York has become the first state to allow taxpayer-funded researchers to pay women for giving their eggs for embryonic stem cell research, a move welcomed by many scientists but condemned by critics who fear it will lead to the exploitation of vulnerable women....But the field is highly controversial, largely because the cells are derived by destroying days-old embryos, a process some consider the equivalent of killing a person.	Washington Post
Jun 25, 2009	U.S. Presses China on Censorship: Senior Officials Object to New Filter-Software Requirement QUOTE: U.S. officials are pressuring the Chinese government to shelve a proposed rule that would require all computers shipped in China to be equipped with Web-filtering software, citing concerns that the order may violate China's commitments under the World Trade Organization.	Washington Post
Jun 24, 2009	DHS to Cut Police Access to Spy-Satellite Data: Democrat Calls Bush Program 'Ill-Conceived' QUOTE: President George W. Bush's top intelligence and homeland security officials authorized the National Applications Office to expand sharing of satellite data with domestic agencies. But congressional Democrats barred funding for what they said could become a new platform for domestic surveillance that would raise privacy and civil liberties concerns.	Washington Post
Jun 17, 2009	Twitter Is a Player In Iran's Drama: State Dept. Asked Site to Keep Running QUOTE: The State Department asked Twitter to delay scheduled maintenance earlier this week to avoid disrupting communications among tech-savvy Iranian citizens....an Iranian-American activist in Washington said that tweets from a handful of students have been instrumental in getting information to people outside Iran.	Washington Post
Jun 13, 2009	Pentagon Cyber Unit Prompts Questions: New Command's Offensive Role Complicates Administration's Global Outreach QUOTE: a "cyber-command" is prompting questions about its role in the larger national strategy to protect government and private-sector computer networks and whether privacy can be protected. And the command is fueling debate over the proper rules to govern a new kind of warfare in which unannounced adversaries using bits of computer code can launch transnational attacks.	Washington Post
Jun 06, 2009	Google Says It's Actually Quite Small QUOTE: Three times in the past month, government agencies have targeted Google for antitrust reviews. An outstanding private lawsuit alleges that Google tried to kill a business-to-business search engine with predatory pricing.	Washington Post
May 25, 2009	Iran Blocks Facebook, Outlet for Opposition: Lively Discussions on June 12 Vote Took Place on Web Site QUOTE: discussions had taken place among Iranians who wondered whether voting in the June 12 presidential election meant supporting Iran's system of clerical rule, or, as some argued, could be used to remove Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad's three opponents also used the site to spread campaign messages	Washington Post
May 13, 2009	Hard Questions In Wake of Reputed Health Data Theft: Program Official Defends Safeguards QUOTE: [Virginia] Legislators had sharp questions for state officials Tuesday about how hackers stole millions of personal pharmaceutical records from a prescription drug database that was supposed to be secure.	Washington Post
Nov 08, 2008	Bush’s seven deadly environmental sins: How Bush made a mockery of the nation’s environmental laws and values -- and what Obama must do to get us back on track. QUOTE: It hardly bears repeating that George W. Bush's record on the environment makes his own father look like Teddy Roosevelt by comparison. By taking environmental policymaking away from scientists, and turning it over to industry cronies, Bush has made a mockery of the nation's environmental laws and values.	Salon
Sep 08, 2008	Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life QUOTE: A team of biologists and chemists is closing in on bringing non-living matter to life.
Jul 09, 2008	Justice Breyer Is Among Victims in Data Breach Caused by File Sharing QUOTE: Services such as LimeWire, which are known as peer-to-peer networks, link computers directly, allowing users to swap digital movies, music and files with other users without the need of a central Web site to manage the exchange. What users may not be aware of is that the software that facilitates file sharing may be configured to allow access to a portion, if not all, of a user's documents.	Washington Post
Jul 01, 2008	Bloggers take aim at Google QUOTE: Was Google's network of online services manipulated to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the past few days, after several anti-Obama bloggers were unable to update their sites, which are hosted on Google's Blogger service.	International Herald Tribune (IHT)
Jun 28, 2008	Scientist Is Paid Millions by U.S. in Anthrax Suit QUOTE: The Justice Department announced Friday that it would pay $4.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Steven J. Hatfill, a former Army biodefense researcher intensively investigated as a “person of interest” in the deadly anthrax letters of 2001. The settlement, consisting of $2.825 million in cash and an annuity paying Dr. Hatfill $150,000 a year for 20 years, brings to an end a five-year legal battle that had recently threatened a reporter with large fines for declining to name sources she said she did not recall.	New York Times
Jun 27, 2008	A Company Computer and Questions About E-Mail Privacy QUOTE: The lawsuit filed by Mr. Sidell in federal court in Connecticut involves an unsettled area of the law, where changes in technology create tension between expectations of personal privacy and companies’ rights to monitor the equipment they provide to employees. The case’s unusual combination of facts, which are in dispute, paves the way for a decision that could help set a precedent for dealing with personal e-mail at work.	New York Times
Jun 24, 2008	Case of sonar's effects on whales heads to high court: At issue: Can a judge enforce environmental rules at the expense of national defense training? QUOTE: The US Supreme Court announced on Monday it would examine whether a federal judge acted properly in ordering the US Navy to alter its sonar training procedures to protect whales and dolphins off the California coast.	Christian Science Monitor
Jun 12, 2008	Chemical Law Has Global Impact: E.U.'s New Rules Forcing Changes By U.S. Firms QUOTE: Europe this month rolled out new restrictions on makers of chemicals linked to cancer and other health problems, changes that are forcing U.S. industries to find new ways to produce a wide range of everyday products.	Washington Post
Jun 09, 2008	The Departed (Dot Earth) QUOTE: Previous bouts of human-caused extinctions were due mainly to directed take: humans hunting for food. What we are seeing now is probably the first large animal that has ever gone extinct merely as an indirect consequence of human activity: a victim of market forces and our collective lifestyle...It is gone because too many people got too efficient at catching fish in the river and it was incidental bycatch. And it is perhaps a view of the future for much of the rest of the world and an indication that the predicted mass extinction is arriving on schedule.	New York Times
Jun 05, 2008	The Inexact Science Behind DMCA Takedown Notices (Bits) QUOTE: The paper finds that there is a serious flaw in how these trade groups finger alleged file-sharers. It also suggests that some people might be getting improperly accused of sharing copyrighted content, and could even be purposely framed by other users.	New York Times
May 29, 2008	Journals Find Fakery in Many Images Submitted to Support Research QUOTE: As computer programs make images easier than ever to manipulate, editors at a growing number of scientific publications are turning into image detectives, examining figures to test their authenticity.	Arts & Letters Daily
May 15, 2008	Diversity Isn’t Rocket Science, Is It? (Life's Work) QUOTE: “It’s almost a time warp,” said Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the founder of the Center for Work-Life Policy, a nonprofit organization that studies women and work. “All the predatory and demeaning and discriminatory stuff that went on in workplaces 20, 30 years ago is alive and well in these professions.”	New York Times
May 08, 2008	Your Brain on Ethics QUOTE: A study published online today in Science is one of the first to investigate how the brain wrestles with such morally charged tradeoffs....The findings suggest that people strive to avoid inequity, but only up to a point; maximizing the greater good is also an important--and sometimes competing--factor in such decisions.
May 06, 2008	A Woman, a Village and a War on Plastic Bags QUOTE: This week, to mark the one-year anniversary of the bag ban, Modbury is planning a big beach cleanup -- and a new campaign. Whatever item of trash residents find the most of, they will ban next. Hosking suspects it's going to be plastic water bottles, and she is already thinking about ways to promote reusable cups for tap water.	Washington Post
May 05, 2008	In Pellicano Case, Lessons in Wiretapping Skills QUOTE: But the trial, which went to the jury last week, offered arguably more for people who enjoy talk of encryption software, code-wiping booby traps or the low-tech secrets of phone company networks. It has brought into focus some startling technological revelations, provoked intriguing questions and even taught some lessons to technophiles — criminally inclined or not.	New York Times
Mar 30, 2008	City Subpoenas Creator of Text Messaging Code QUOTE: Lawyers representing the city in lawsuits filed by hundreds of people arrested during the convention asked Mr. Hirsch to hand over voluminous records revealing the content of messages exchanged on his service and identifying people who sent and received messages. Mr. Hirsch says that some of the subpoenaed material no longer exists and that he believes he has the right to keep other information secret.	New York Times
Mar 07, 2008	Concern in Europe on Cellphone Ads for Children QUOTE: The objections...appear to reflect an instinctive worry about whether parents should be giving young children cellphones at all. Jóvenes Verdes, an environmental advocacy group for young people in Spain, argues that “the mobile telephone industry is acting like the tobacco industry by designing products that addict the very young.”	New York Times
Feb 29, 2008	Surveillance system raises privacy concerns QUOTE: The Homeland Security Department is testing technology that would allow its agents to use cellphones or e-mail devices to covertly share live video of possible terrorists over a law enforcement network. The idea is prompting concern from privacy advocates.	USA TODAY
Feb 27, 2008	Merchants in Britain Give Young Loiterers an Earful: Shrill Noise Repels Kids but Not Adults QUOTE: The Mosquito has sparked a new sort of buzz in Britain, this time among political and civil rights groups that say the device is discriminatory and treats young people as second-class citizens. Others have worried that the Mosquito is the next step in Britain's Big Brother society.	Washington Post

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