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…996 warning that this hacking culture might provide a portal to anti-government hacktivist groups. The NSA became so enamored with this new computer technology that it neglected the security implications of employing outsiders to service it. “All of us just fell in love with the...

…ples. Similarly for high school photos; people with genuine smiles at 18 years of age were happier later in life and in more stable relationships. Smiling is really important. It is good to be around people who smile, they are more successful — and nicer. There is also a curious...

…eshly brewed coffee, and stretching out overhead like a cat in the shade of a Spanish villa. Magnificent. It turned out more like this: bolt upright as if blasted with a foghorn, grab clock, curse, jump out of bed in underwear to check e-mail, remember that I was forbidden to do...

…r our elected government. My main focus was on how to improve the military’s fitness to respond. I’d lived through, and more recently fought in, all of Israel’s wars. I felt that we had yet to apply some of the critical lessons from those conflicts. Leading tanks into battle agai...

…ch words as “equals” and “plus”. These word equations are usually easy enough to read. My appendix will cover them and more in notation. Mill’s equation may be as old as economics, although | haven’t found it put explicitly before Keynes wrote it in his General Theory 1936. It...

…suggesting that the Carlyn mess was partially my fault. (though in that specific example , I had never been asked to do more than merely provide you the name of the most highly recognized atty in the field, not consulted,nor even asked again for my guidance along the way. ). I ac...

…ental operations of thinking and perception? Here, I would like to suggest the instigation of a project that is at once more ambitious, more narrowly targeted, and likely to yield more profound theoretical, practical and cultural insights than the Brain Activity Mapping initiativ...

… truck bomber drove into a building being used as our military headquarters in the south Lebanese city of Tyre, killing more than 60 people. Yet the election ended up as a near-tie. Peres did lead Labor back into top spot for the first time since Begin’s victory in 1977. But he...

…federal legalization: (1) the FDA will begin approving individual pharmaceutical-grade drugs derived from cannabis; (2) more states will adopt medical cannabis laws; (3) more states will adopt recreational laws; (4) the FDA will adopt routine approval procedures for drugs with ex...

…. My closest friends are iconoclasts. Some of my best teachers were fired. The First Amendment would have been nothing more than a parchment promise had it not been given life by brave political dissidents and bold judicial dissenters. Because of these provocateurs, the First Am...

…t loud: Why did that happen? Followed pretty quickly by: What the hell are we doing here? The little bombs were shaking more than the Humvees. Walking into the Pentagon, one is struck by cascading sensations of immensity and volume and, frankly, gravity. Surely, you reflect, the...

…on, exhaustion strikes. Part of our exhaustion comes from the fact that we have depleted a critical resource: sugar, or more precisely, glucose. When the availability of this resource diminishes, we also lose self- control. This is why the loss of self-control has a cycle that fo...

…ver an ambitious program to rebuild the US military. It would include modernizing US nuclear weapons systems, investing more in cybersecurity, enlarging the navy’s fleet and increasing the number of fighter aircraft for the air force. Trump’s plan also includes additional militar...

…the reasons many Israeli Arabs were abandoning me. The clashes in the Galilee at the start of the new intifada had left more than a dozen of their community dead. As an official inquiry would later conclude, there was blame on all sides. A number of Arab members of the Knesset ha...

…ility to watch others. To try to know what others are doing is a fundamental part of being human. So is fitting in. The more collectivist the human society, the more important it is to conform and the more prominent the role of shame.* Shame serves as a warning to adhere to group...