Nearly 200,000 electronic records at the University of Texas at Austin's business school have been illegally accessed, the school said Sunday. It's the school's second major breach in three years. The university said it learned late Friday that some Social Security numbers and possibly biographical material of students, alumni, faculty and staff might have been accessed. The university has notified the state attorney general's office and established a call center and Web site for those whose records might have been breached. ...
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 Japan, U.S. agree on troop repositioning Issue was cost of transferring 8,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam |
The United States and Japan have struck a bargain over a plan to realign U.S. forces in Japan, with Japan agreeing to pay $6.1 billion of the nearly $10.3 billion cost, the Japanese defense chief said Sunday night.Japanese Defense Minister Fukushiro Nukaga told reporters after his three-hour meeting with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that Japan wanted to have an appropriate sharing of costs in transferring 8,000 Marines from Okinawa to the Pacific island of Guam.Japan has offered to pay $2.8 billion, and the remainder of its $6.1 billion share would take the form of loans to the United States. Japan would shoulder 59 percent of the realignment cost. “We have come to an understanding that we both feel is in the best interests of our two countries,” Rumsfeld said after the meetings....
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| Volcano prompts Peru evacuation |
The authorities in Peru have declared a state of emergency around a volcano that has begun spitting ash and smoke after almost 40 years of inactivity. The Ubinas volcano in southern Peru started erupting three weeks ago, killing livestock and polluting water. The army has now been brought in to help evacuate nearby villages, although some residents are reluctant to leave. Peru's Institute of Geophysics has warned that a dome of incandescent lava seems to be building up in the crater. The volcano has been spewing out acid-laden ash and smoke over a radius of six kilometres (3.5 miles), causing eye and breathing problems for local people. A regional official said muffled explosions were coming from the volcano and pieces of red-hot lava were expanding inside the crater. Teams of geologists and doctors have been sent to the area to monitor the volcano and the health risks. ...
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| Defiance in the land of the free |
The government came for the horses at dawn. It was spring 2003 and it was foaling season. A helicopter flew low over Pine Valley, herding them to corrals. Some prematurely gave birth, others were trampled. Armed federal agents stood by. By the end of the day, over 500 horses were taken to be auctioned off to a local rancher. Not long afterwards some 50 carcasses were dumped the horses had starved to death. Carrie Dann, a diminutive Western Shoshone grandmother who owned the horses, refuses to talk about it. “Indians love horses,” is all she’ll say. But she thinks it caused the death of her sister, Mary, who died last April. “After that,” she says, “Mary went down real fast.” The 2003 round-up was the fourth military-style operation in one of the longest-running land disputes in the history of America. For over 30 years, Carrie and Mary Dann have fought the US government for Western Shoshone rights to 60m acres of land that stretch through Nevada into neighbouring states. Until now...
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| Iraq a disaster: Albright |
INVADING Iraq is likely to go down as one of the worst US foreign policy blunders ever, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said. The former top US diplomat told the New York Times that Iraq's deposed leader Saddam Hussein "was horrible. But I did not think he was an imminent threat to the United States. "You can't go to war with everybody you dislike," Ms Albright said. "I think Iraq may end up being one of the worst disasters in American foreign policy." Ms Albright, who served under President Bill Clinton, said US foreign policy mistakes under President George W. Bush have left her feeling "sick" about America's current status in global affairs. This woman thought it was ok when our embargo was causing the deaths of thousands of Iraq kids so her credibility as a humanitarian is Zero. When the Clinton administration was causing the deaths in Iraq, it was ok??? Lets get rid of both these completely corrupted parties and completely clean out the Pig Pen...
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| Snow urges end to lend-and-forgive cycle |
As wealthy nations offer debt relief to the poorest, they must be sure not to trigger a new lend-and-forgive cycle that becomes endless, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Sunday. "The clearance of unsustainable debt is a critical component of the broader solution," Snow said in prepared remarks to the Development Committee of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund."However, it also means we must take care that we don't add to these burdens in the near term," he said. The IMF and World Bank need mechanisms to constrain the accumulation of so-called concessional debt -- debt offered at below-market rates -- so countries do not get themselves right back into debt problems."Clear country experience has proved that the rapid accumulation of concessional debt quickly can lead to incidents of debt distress," Snow said....
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