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According to the agreement, the theft came as Zhu and Kimbara were preparing to leave Harvard for a lab at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Over the course of five days during winter break in late 1999 and early 2000, the researchers entered the lab as early as 5:34 a.m., removed materials, and shipped them by private carrier to Texas...
...Shelton had no phone number to give to friends, family and potential employers. "People in a position to hire make judgments about a person without a phone," he says. "They don't take that person seriously." That may change, thanks to Project C.A.R.E., a new program run by the San Francisco communications start-up GrandCentral. C.A.R.E. is giving Shelton and hundreds of other homeless people free permanent numbers, which go to voicemail boxes. The plan may be thwarted, though, by the Federal Communications Commission, which is considering a $1 monthly tax on every U.S. phone number. GrandCentral CEO Craig Walker...
Viral videos are powerful, but that power can be a little scary. Once something goes viral, there's no way to get the genie back in the bottle, and some things go viral that shouldn't. One notorious surveillance video, still at large online, shows a suspect in a San Bernardino County, Calif., police station shooting himself in the head with a pistol. Another video shows a chubby kid waving a golf-ball retriever like a light saber. The kid, Ghyslain Raza, was 15 at the time. Three of his classmates found the footage and put it online...
...that serve meals, do laundry and clean at Opus Dei facilities. "It's like working at a hotel," says Lucy, except that the job requires daily prayer, daily penance and lifelong celibacy. The work meant 12-hour days, six or seven days a week at Opus Dei centers from San Francisco to Boston, and Lucy says her minimum-wage salary was turned over to the organization. She found the stringent regulation of her life incredibly grueling. "You had to ask permission to do everything," she recalls. "If you wanted to go out with a friend, watch TV or listen...
...known, as their deal killer. Lucy, a former numerary assistant (see box, following page), told TIME it was "nothing. It's not like The Da Vinci Code." Catholic laity and luminaries, including Mother Teresa, have used it to identify with Christ's--and the world's--agony. San Antonio Archbishop José Gomez, an Opus member, notes self-mortification's tie to Opus' roots: "In the Hispanic culture," he says, "you look at the crucifixes, and they have a lot of blood. We are more used to sacrifice in the sense of physical suffering...