Thursday, June 23, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, June 23, 2011)
(1)- NAVAL WAR LOOMS -- Fiji and Tonga warships confront each other in an escalating quarrel over two lonely reefs 1500km north of Auckland. A Fijian patrol boat flees the Minerva Reefs – claimed by both nations.

(2)- IT’S NOT EASY -- The hardest problem in finding the source of cyber attacks is attribution. Each data packet sent over the Internet contains information about its source and its destination. But the info can be falsified.

(3)- ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE – Crime researchers suggest brain scans can identify children who may become killers. Studies show brain features that seem to reduce fear, impair decision making, and blunt emotional reactions to others' distress.

(4)- PHILOSOPHER STOCK -- Thinking of buying shares in a great philosopher? Some suggest we should sell off Descartes (rated for years as junk bonds) and buy Spinoza, a newly discovered hot stock.

(5)- NEW STUFF -- Scientists have merged light-emitting proteins from jellyfish with a single human cell to create a unique first: a living, biological laser, according to a report published in the journal Nature Photonics.

(6)- DETAILS -- When a CIA operation in Pakistan went bad, leaving three men dead, the episode offered a rare glimpse inside a shadowy world of espionage. It also jeopardized America’s most critical outpost in the war against terrorism.

(7)- PARIS REVIEW ORIGINS -- Early in the fifties another young generation of American expatriates in Paris became 26, but they were not Sad Young Men, nor were they Lost; they were the witty, irreverent sons of a conquering nation.

(8)- THE WORLD'S GREATEST COWBOY -- The World’s Greatest Cowboy had to be peeled off his barstool and carried home the night he killed a man. Forty years later, the World’s Greatest Cowboy is finally learning to be great at other things.

(9)- TOM GOLDSTEIN -- At 35, he's argued an astounding 16 cases before the u.s Supreme Court (he's one of the youngest nongovernment lawyers ever to reach this mark). But it's the way he has handled them the big cases not the number of them.

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