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December 9, 2003 by Dark-Star
Jonathan Haeber for National Geographic News November 20, 2003 View an Impact: From the Front Lines of Global Health Photo Gallery: Click Here Impact: From the Front Lines of Global Health , an in-depth look at global health issues from AIDS to obesity, is the latest book ( details ) issued by photojournalist Karen Kasmauski. National Geographic News spoke with the National Geographic Contributing Photographer-in-Residence about the insights she's gained documenting human health crises ...
November 24, 2003 by Dark-Star
(By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus. Posted: 22/11/2003 at 14:14 GMT)Federal officials this week accused a third Michigan man of conspiring to steal credit card numbers from the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores by taking advantage of an unsecured wi-fi network at store in suburban Detroit. The new defendant, Brian Salcedo, 20, was named by the original suspects, Paul Timmins, 22, and Adam Botbyl, 20, in an FBI interview following their arrest, according to a government affidavit filed in...
August 20, 2004 by Dark-Star
BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- In this story, it was the drunk driver who pulled over the police officer. "He pulled up behind me, rolled down the passenger side window and said he was looking for a police officer to arrest him," Ian McCollin, chief of police in Vernon, Vermont, said in an interview on Wednesday. "When I asked him why, he replied 'I'm drunk."' To make matters worse, the drunk driver was operating on a suspended license, which was taken away after a previous drunk ...
August 20, 2004 by Dark-Star
SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) -- A black bear was found passed out at a campground in Washington state recently after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer, a campground worker said on Wednesday. "We noticed a bear sleeping on the common lawn and wondered what was going on until we discovered that there were a lot of beer cans lying around," said Lisa Broxson, a worker at the Baker Lake Resort, 80 miles (129 kilometers) northeast of Seattle. The hard-drinking bear, estimated ...