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Swiss Data Theft Hits 24,000 HSBC Clients – WSJ.com

HSBC Holdings PLC said a former employee stole data on about 24,000 accounts in its Swiss private bank that wound up in the hands of French authorities

What wound up in the hands of French authorities? Was it the bank, the accounts, the data, the employee or HSBC? Hard to tell.

From the following paragraphs, it appears [...]

Postmodern At Bedtime | The New Republic

By eschewing an incantatory mode, by not luring children step by step into a transparent world and holding them spellbound as in a dream, this postmodern tale, artful and ingenious, wakes us up, and provides its own useful challenge to understanding. But there is a cost. The risk with the cyber-genre is that, with [...]

Around the Block – 2010 Ford Taurus SHO – The New Taurus at the Top – Review – NYTimes.com

This vile, narrow strip of crumbling asphalt zigzags uphill like an amusement park thrill ride, rising from the cool Pacific Coast over steep mountains and into hot, dusty highlands.

Taurus muscle car? As in 0-60 in 5.2?

Beyond boundaries – The National Newspaper

What does it actually mean to be a holy man or a Jain nun, a mystic or a tantric seeking salvation on the roads of modern India, as the Tata trucks thunder past?”

People have always sought salvation in times that were modern to them.

Physics and Pixie Dust » American Scientist

It’s rare for a scientist—even a string theorist, beholden neither to instruments nor to data—to submit 7 articles in an entire year, let alone one month

It can be hard to pass out umbrellas when it’s raining hundred dollar bills.

FT.com / In depth – Notes from inside

On the Internet, no one can see your tongue is in your cheek.:

How the AvantGrand, Yamaha’s new electronic piano, improves upon a 300-year-old instrument. – By Chris Wilson – Slate Magazine

In essence, the company is doing the same thing Les Paul did when he debuted an early model of a solid-body electric guitar: namely, dressing it up like its acoustic forebears.

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