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InternetNews January 17, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Voter Visits to The Web Double The number of Americans using the Internet as their main source of political news doubled since the last mid-term election. But did the move online change the way politics work?
InternetNews January 17, 2007 Roy Mark	Jury to Phisher: You've Got Prison Time California man faces 100 years in prison for phishing scheme aimed at AOL users.
InternetNews January 17, 2007 Roy Mark	Pretexting Ban a Federal Done Deal Bush signs new law targeting those who seek confidential phone records and those who sell them.
BusinessWeek January 22, 2007 Aaron Pressman	Homeland Security 2.0 Five years after September 11, a new wave of smarter high-tech tools is coming to market.
InternetNews January 16, 2007 Roy Mark	Coalition Pushes For DTV Transition Tech companies, trade groups urge Congress to hold fast to Feb. 17, 2009 cut-off as the end of analog broadcasting.
InternetNews January 16, 2007 Roy Mark	Bills Target ID Theft Ease U.S. Senators have a simple solution to put a stop to identity theft: ban phone companies from selling personal information, bar Internet sites from selling the records and prohibit the sale or display of Social Security numbers without an individual's consent.
Smithsonian January 2007 Eric Jaffe	Patent Pending The Supreme Court may soon reinvent the rules for invention. At issue: whether to change the standard for considering an invention "obvious" -- and therefore ineligible for patent.
Scientific American February 2007	Truth Time in Washington Will science benefit from the shift in political power?
Scientific American February 2007 Jeffrey Sachs	Moving beyond Kyoto To seriously address the issue of global climate change, policymakers need to establish a framework that extends through the end of the century
InternetNews January 12, 2007 Roy Mark	Data Breach Law Back in Senate Businesses and government agencies would have to notify consumers under certain circumstances of data breaches under legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
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