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IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Billy Brackenridge	Ultrawideband Upset WiMedia, the next generation of wireless connectivity, is raising some interesting questions about privacy. Will ultrashort-range radio have far-reaching legal consequences?
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Charles Perrow	Shrink The Targets Human nature can better withstand a dozen small disasters than a single great one, even if the casualty total is the same. Protecting America's big targets is next to impossible; we should instead downsize them to make them less consequential and easier to protect.
Wired September 2006 Andrew Blum	Storm Center Designing a new home for NOAA set off a hurricane-force fight between the geeks and the government's star architect.
InternetNews August 31, 2006 Roy Mark	DoJ, Microsoft Sign Up For Two More Years The Department of Justice and Microsoft put the final legal touches Wednesday on their May agreement to extend by two years the communications protocol licensing program portion of Microsoft's antitrust agreement with the government.
ifeminists August 30, 2006 Carey Roberts	No Need to Keep Duke Rape Accuser's Name Secret The cat is out of the bag. The identity of the Duke rape accuser has been widely disseminated on the radio, via the internet, in public legal documents, and in an encyclopedia.
ifeminists August 30, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	New American Bar Association Article Points to Crisis in False Paternity Judgments Child support debtors receive little public sympathy, at times with reason. Yet the victims of false paternity judgments aren't men trying to evade their legitimate responsibilities. They are victims of one of the most indefensible civil rights violations in America today.
ifeminists August 30, 2006 Tony Zizza	Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied High School students Dailyn Campbell and Jesse Howard should have had the moral fortitude to not play football this year. Out of a sense of sacrifice for the horrible crime they committed. It's pathetic that the judge in this case showed no adherence to the rule of law and common sense.
AskMen.com Ben Dutka	Top 10: Notorious Prisons The following is a list of the 10 most notorious jails on earth; they are the worst of the worst and the lowest of the low.
InternetNews August 29, 2006 Roy Mark	Botnet Perp Hit With Three-Year Prison Term Adware scam results in damaged computers at Seattle hospital and U.S. military installations.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2006 Mac Greer	Don't Forget Mississippi Gulfport, Miss., rises to the challenge of rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.
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