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...have had maps stolen from their collections by map thief E. Forbes Smiley III.Federal authorities were also present at the meeting at Yale University, which was held to determine ownership of the 97 maps that Smiley has admitted to stealing over a seven-year period.HCL Director of Communications Beth S. Brainard said that the meeting was positive and productive, but that the libraries agreed not to comment on the meeting’s proceedings. Harvard will not announce whether it will hire an investigator to determine if Smiley took more maps than the eight he has admitted to stealing until...
...breach was not an isolated incident. "Data security is in shambles," says Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC), which has posted a list of more than 150 serious data compromises so far in 2006. The breaches include lost bank backup tapes, hacking losses, stolen laptops, and releases of private information like AOL's. "This latest leak gives us a window into the sensitivity of search strings," Givens says. "We all use search engines and don't think about what someone could learn about the most sensitive aspects of our lives by studying what we search for over...
...interests beyond Disney princesses, I recently rented the 1994 rendition of Little Women. It was delightful to introduce my girls to the Louisa May Alcott classic and we were all enjoying the adventures, joys and tribulations of the March family when about halfway through the movie, selfless and compassionate Beth contracts scarlet fever. The illness almost kills her and leaves her heart permanently weakened. My daughters were perplexed and frightened. Could they get scarlet fever? Could their friends get scarlet fever...
...best doctor-mom way to explain that scarlet fever occurs when you have strep throat and the strep germs in your throat migrate to your skin. The girls were even more frightened. Each of them had had strep throat - could they have almost died? I reassured them that Beth March had nearly died because doctors in the 19th century, unlike today, didn't have medicine for strep throat and scarlet fever. They calmed down and we were able to return to the movie...
...plea bargain he signed in June. The maps missing from Harvard’s collection, for example, overlap with maps missing from collections at the New York Public Library, Yale University, the Boston Public Library, and the British Library, according to Harvard College Library (HCL) Director of Communications Beth S. Brainard. The Aug. 7 meeting will allow the libraries to look closely at the 97 maps recovered by the government to determine which collection each map was stolen from, she said. “Some of the institutions will come up with a longer list of missing items after this...