Results for “Gene Machine: The Race to Discover the Secrets of the Ribosome”

150 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS exclusive alternatives. The point is to assure that any alternative that fits the relevant facts, no matter how implausible it may initially seem to be, is not neglected. One of the most vexing problems that had to be explained by these scenar...

…the NSA’s job to share information with its allies. This raises the question: What constitutes whistle-blowing? To the general public no doubt, a whistle-blower is simply a per- son who exposes government misdeeds from inside that govern- ment. But in the eyes of the law, someon...

Nobody has done any real work to support this proposition, nor is it clear exactly how it would be tested. My view is that the grammar “Islam is x” is itself problematic because Islam has expressed itself throughout history in a variety of fashions. It is more useful to talk in t...

122 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS and student loans to credit scores and overdrafts in personal bank accounts. This ubiquitous surveillance of virtually every non-cash transaction came about because of advances in computer technology that made it economically feasible to mine s...

270 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS deemed others too sensitive for journalists. So I wanted to find out from Kucherena which documents Snowden had taken to Russia. I went about it in a roundabout way. When Shevardnadze asked him about the secret material Snowden might reveal in...

282 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS on-camera star of a twenty-hour-long reality show, edited first into a video and then a full-length documentary, transformed him in the public’s mind into a hero. It would be a mistake to assume that the central role he gave himself was simply...

…d, among other fat cats in trouble, Worldcom’s Bernie Ebbers and Goldman Sach’s Lloyd Blankfein, and is one of attorney general Eric Holder’s closest friends. Weingarten, hoarse, with a cold, and dejected, is just back from a failed defense of former Connecticut Governor John Row...

…tely encrypt his computer. To make his point, he cited Greenwald’s November 12, 2012, blog. In it, Greenwald noted that General David Petraeus, then the CIA direc- tor, had been caught in a sex scandal because his personal e-mails had been intercepted. Snowden wrote to Greenwald...

300 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS The conversation that Snowden began is necessary for another reason. The relentless growth of data-collection technology had come to endanger personal privacy. Smart phones in our pockets, GPS recorders in our cars, fitness bands on our wrists,...

86 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS from Citizen Four were another matter. They contained the sort of SCI communications intelligence data that no major newspaper had ever published before. Their disclosure might result in journalists’ being imprisoned, because both British law an...

Century proponent of a school of Jewish ecstatic mysticism, Abraham Abulafia, whose interpretation of the Guide and his own Commentary on the Secrets taught that the human mind, if transformed into a “state of active intellect,” could become one with Spirit, realizing the Kingdom...

60 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS of open legal judgments filed against him, including an $85,000 lien by the IRS. After resigning from his law firm in 2005, he moved to Rio de Janeiro and began a new career as a blogger for the Internet maga- zine Salon. He wrote fierce, and o...

* The evolution of cooperation and punishment in animals: Clutton-Brock, T.H (2009). Cooperation between non-kin in animal societies. Nature, 462, 51-57; Clutton-Brock, T.H., & Parker, G.A. (1995). Punishment in animal societies. Nature, 373, 209-216; Hauser, M.D. (2006). Moral M...

…s initiative is moving in the opposite direction. It promotes cooperation and business across the border,” said Jason Eugene Subler, Greater China bureau chief of Reuters. Some100mediarepresentatives from about 20 countries attended the seminar and reached a written consensus to...

88 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS finished his preparations for the journalists. With selected docu- ments copied on a thumb drive, he moved from the residence where he had been staying for ten days to a venue for meeting the report- ers. The place he chose, as noted earlier, wa...