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Financial institutions are the only group other than employers required by law to collect your SSN. But they too use it far more than necessary--to let you access accounts over the phone or online, for instance. Some banks use just the last four digits. "It's not totally safe, but it's safer," says Robert Ellis Smith, publisher of Privacy Journal. He suggests calling the bank and requesting a different password altogether...
...clean by the end of the decade. China's environmental regulators have been inching towards those goals: last month, after a government campaign called Operation Green Sword cracked down on more than 80 companies that were allegedly polluting the waterways around Guangzhou, provincial authorities triumphantly declared the Pearl River safe for swimming...
...June 19]. Indian epics are full of royal heads who loved and cared for their subjects more than for their family members, but alas such benevolence is rare these days. Indians can only dream of a leader like King Bhumibol who could steer the ship of state to a safe harbor rather than sailing into storms of selfish politicians and running aground on the rocky shore. Arvind A. Choudhari Belfast...
...Iran. The big fear is that North Korea could be tempted to sell nuclear material to al-Qaeda, which would have no reluctance about using it. Former Assistant Secretary of State Robert Gallucci says Pyongyang "might figure that selling fissile material to a terrorist group would be relatively safe and profitable...
...nuclear warheads; now the CIA estimates that Pyongyang has enough plutonium to make as many as eight and is hard at work on the technology that would deliver them to American shores. North Korea is slowly but surely building its nuclear capability, making the world steadily less safe, and it's not clear what anyone can do about it without trying something entirely different. If Kim Jong Il intended to put the pressure back on Washington with his Fourth of July fireworks display, he surely succeeded. [The following descriptive text appears within A diagram] A Growing Threat The bulk...