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...month the site's parent company, eUniverse, based in Wallingford, Conn., was contacted by someone identifying himself as "Maxus," a 19-year-old Russian who claimed to have hacked into those files and filched those numbers. The FBI has since asked the company not to reveal whether that communication came by fax or e-mail, but the message was the same. "I found a security hole," the extortionist wrote. "Pay me $100,000...or I'll sell your cards...
...provision in church legislation for a Pope who becomes incapable of acting as Pope." While the Vatican can operate with an incapacitated Pope, important decisions (the naming of bishops) and documents would have to wait until he was well enough to approve of them--or until a new Pope came around. A mentally compromised Pope kept alive artificially would present the church with a constitutional crisis. If a Pope can see that coming, says Greeley, he should choose--or be persuaded--to retire. In which case, canon law is simple. The Pope is one of the world's last absolute...
...other day a friend of mine was clearing out his attic, and he came across a copy of a 1967 newspaper called the World Journal Tribune. Its name was an amalgam of three defunct New York City newspapers, each of which had possessed a sharply defined identity. But by the time they morphed into the World Journal Tribune, its identity was as meaningless as its name...
...Then came the happy news. While I was naively prepared to believe the main purpose of the merger was to make more money for shareholders, all present assured us that the new entity was there to serve the public interest. Case: "Ultimately, this is about serving consumers." Levin: "The values that we feel we can leave as a legacy...have a lot to do with the social destiny of people everywhere...
...genes didn't think about this logic, of course. But since genes that didn't comply with it--didn't interact constructively--were dumped by natural selection, life came to be filled with teams of genes that played non-zero-sum games well. Larger and larger teams of genes played more and more elaborate games. In other words, more complex life forms evolved, notably including Homo sapiens. Basically, you are a large and well-played non-zero-sum game. Congratulations...