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Protecting your privacy in the information age

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Filed under: Extracurriculars, Technology, Identity TheftFor 25 years, Frank Ahearn made a career out of tracking people down. Now he helps them disappear. Starting in 1984, Ahearn worked as a skip tracer (tracing people who skip town) tracking down everyone from a crook who helped steal the Oscar statuettes to an out-of-focus doughball in a beret named Monica Lewinsky. He also specialized in setting up sting operations to prove disability fraud.Continue reading Protecting your privacy in the information ageProtecting your privacy in the information age originally appeared on WalletPop Blog

Christian Right Insiders Reveal Racism, Virulent Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Homophobia in Prominent Religious Group

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I'd much rather be working in the secular world than for a ministry," said the founder's former secretary, still a conservative and devout Christian. "The secular world is nicer.

POTG: 12 Celebs Caught Being Naughty (Pics)

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Naughty

Students at Miami Heat Scrimmage Dupe Sports Reporter

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How many people without college degrees does it take to trick a celebrated Miami Herald sports reporter? 2!

Exhaustion: Why Feeling Really Tired Can Threaten Your Health

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Americans have more sleep loss and longer work schedules than residents of most other industrialized countries, and both factors can lead to physical and emotional collapse.

Federal Grants Target Children's Behavioral Issues To Improve Schools

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One of the greatest challenges for teachers is kids who disrupt classrooms because of emotional or behavioral problems. Last year, 2.8 million young people — ages 12 to 17 — received treatment or counseling for problems with behavior or emotions in classroom settings. Researchers believe, however, that identifying behavior problems early can prevent the development of more complicated — and costly — mental and substance abuse disorders later on.

Researchers Closer 'Bootless' Computer

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Physicists at the University of California have taken a giant leap closer to creating a new computer chip that gives memory the brains of a CPU, which would be the basis for an 'always-on' state.

Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare - 'The Graveyards' Trailer Has Arrive (video)

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They. Never. Stop. Coming.

Henry Clay: The great-grandfather of open source

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The "American Plan," a system of tariffs and central banking aimed at building "internal improvements" like canals and railroads, represented shared infrastructure in the 19th century. Open source isn't socialist, and it isn't communist. The idea of shared infrastructure is 100% American, it is nearly as old as the Republic, and its founding father is Henry Clay.

California Man Dies After Being Hit in the Head with a Golf Ball

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Hiroshi Tango, 69, died over the weekend after being hit on the head with a golf ball at a country club nine days earlier.

You DVR your Favorite Show, so why not your Web Content?

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As the real-time web grows in popularity so has the notion that getting web content in real-time is essential.  Nothing could be further from the truth for almost everyone who likes to watch TV or engage in discussions online.

Beautiful Failures: The Best-Designed Tech That Flopped

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Ask any experienced manufacturer to name the key component to a winning product, and they'll undoubtedly reel off a string of theories, personal maxims and anecdotes. Then, if they're even remotely honest, they'll confess that they have no idea what they're talking about.

The Dark Side Of Proposition 19

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Prop 19 has a dark side, something that no one seems to be willing to talk about. Legalizing the recreational use of marijuana will take away a critical tool used by law enforcement every day; probable cause without a warrant.

The 12 Most Horrendous Board Games of All-Time

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For every Monopoly or Clue there is a dozen failed board game titles. In many cases, it's not hard to see why these board games failed. In other cases, an improper box art graphic or slogan can result in a hilarious product design fail. Below are 12 of the most horrendous board game fails of all time.

Woman Accused of Killing Her Children With Samurai Sword

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Monica Christine McCarrick is in the running for worst mother ever: she's accused of killing her three-year-old twin daughters with a samurai sword and then setting their house on fire.

13 Things Your Flight Attendant Won't Tell You

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They don't have a boyfriend in every city. And opening the lavatory door is just not that complicated. Just push.

Older women may not need frequent osteoporosis scans

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Research suggested that women 67 and older with normal bone-mineral-density scores may not need to be screened for another 10 years...

Q&A With Crappy Hip-Hop Group Who Blocked Major Fwy for PR Stunt

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With the apparent guise of helping homeless children around the world, Imperial Stars says there are no regrets. However: "What's even more sad is that these kids have left their homes because they've been sexually, physically or verbally abused. And that's extremely sad--I mean, I'm sad to the extreme.

Android 4.0's Codename is Cold: 'Ice Cream'

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In terms of Google's names for its Android releases, we didn't expect a change, and we're not getting one. Reportedly, the name for the next unnamed version of Android will be

11 of the juiciest sports sex scandals

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Notable sports figures just can't seem to stay out of trouble when it comes to the fairer sex. Brett Favre is only the most recent athlete whose testosterone levels got him into trouble.
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