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Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior - WSJ.com

Can a regimen of no playdates, no TV, no computer games, and hours of music practice create happy kids? And what happens when they fight back? An exclusive excerpt from Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

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The Dubai Job: Big Issues: GQ

Monday, January 18, 2010. Morning At 6:45 a.m., the first members of an Israeli hit squad land at Dubai International Airport and fan out through the city to await further instructions. Over the next nineteen hours, the rest of the team—at least twenty-seven members—will arrive on flights from Zuric

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Hasnain says:

The private keys used for signing games to run on the PS3. Hello, homebrew code on the PS3.

(if anyone's still wondering, you must have an EPIC FAIL at security for your private keys to be mathematically reversed. these were not leaked)

Posted on 2011-01-04T13:14:36+0000

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Great Rose Bowl Hoax

Type: College Prank.Summary: Caltech students succeeded in altering the University of Washington’s halftime flip-card routine during the 1961 Rose Bowl in order to read “CALTECH”.

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The CIA Meets MIT (idea)@Everything2.com

A few weeks after the office opened, a young man walked in, dressed in a nice business suit and carrying a violin case, and asked to speak with Mr. Andersen. "He's not here right now," said the secretary. "That's OK. I'll wait," said the young man, and sat down. "He may not be back for some time,

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Continuing pro-Wikileaks DDOS actions, Anonymous takes down PayPal.com - Boing Boing

Third Anonymous "Operation Payback" takedown in a single day: PayPal.com is effectively offline. Earlier today, Visa.com and Mastercard.com, along with other targets perceived as enemies of Wikileaks.

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Wikileaks, game theory, and the inexorable march of progress

All the current attention on Wikileaks is around the most recent data release, the poor response by the US government, and the misguided ‘info war’ we are watching unfold right now. I’d like to step back a moment and consider what the long term view may look like.

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WikiLeaks cables: US 'lobbied Russia on behalf of Visa and MasterCard' | World news | The Guardian

US diplomats intervened to try to amend draft law so that it would not 'disadvantage' US credit card firms, cable says

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