You can wince at the cruelty of adolescence, as many did, after reading the Washington Post account of how a teenage Mitt Romney led a gang of prep school buddies to attack another boy. “Senseless,” “vicious” and “stupid” were the words used by witnesses quoted by name in the piece.But to hold the 65-year-old presumptive Republican nominee for president accountable for what he may have done as a mean-spirited teenager is unfair. Because he acted like a bully then no more makes Romney a bully now than does that fact that young Barack Obama tried “maybe a little blow” make him a coke-head.Yearbook photo of Mitt Romney.More troubling is Romney’s continued inability to honestly face up to his own life story and those inconvenient truths ... Continue reading →
May 8, 2012 -- Maurice Sendak, author of "Where the Wild Things Are" and dozens of other children's books, has died at age 83 at his Connecticut home from complications of a recent stroke, reported The New York Times.Sendak's stories, and indeed his own personality, stood out in the children's book genre for their contrariness and sometimes dark edge. His most famous story, "Where the Wild Things Are," written in 1963, told the story of a naughty, obnoxious boy who escapes his mother's anger to an imagined world filled with singing and dancing fanged beasts.The book quickly brought Sendak international acclaim, including the prestigious Caldecott Medal. In 2009, it was made into a feature film.NEWS: Children's Self-Control Predicts Health, Wealth But Sendak's works weren't always ... Continue reading →
How do you hide secret plans in a porn video? Experts say it’s not that hard. Spies have been hiding documents inside other documents or files for hundreds of years, it’s known as steganography, or the science of security through obscurity. Think about a poem in which the first letter of each word spells out a secret message, or a tiny microdot containing codes hidden in a typewritten period. Now, steganography has gone digital and some terrorists have embraced it. NEWS: Bin Laden Complained of Al Qaeda Disaster The German newspaper Die Zeit and CNN reported this week that a Pakistani Al Qaeda operative was caught by German security officials with memory disk that contained a pornographic video. Embedded inside the video was a file ... Continue reading →
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