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Remotely operated surgery robot is easy to e-hijack, researchers find

4/29/2015

 
Nothing like having a squid-like alien embryo extracted from your abdomen to make you appreciate automated surgery.

Alas, outside of science fiction, there's a flip side to the world of robotic surgery, as computer security researchers at the University of Washington have found.

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LBJ Regretted Ordering U.S. Troops into Dominican Republic in 1965, White House Tapes Confirm; Yet He Insisted, "I'd do the same thing right this second."‏

4/28/2015

 
Washington, D.C. -- President Lyndon Johnson regretted sending U.S. troops into the Dominican Republic in 1965, telling aides less than a month later, "I don't want to be an intervenor," according to new transcripts of White House tapes published today (along with the tapes themselves) for the first time by the National Security Archive at George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org).

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When veterans return, their children also deal with the invisible wounds of war

4/20/2015

 
HARTFORD, Conn. — Twice a day, Koen Hughes’s medicine alarm beeps and sputters. He yells out across the kitchen to his father, retired Army Staff Sgt. Jonah Hughes, an Iraq war veteran, who suffers from such a severe brain injury that it’s hard for him to remember things like whether he showered, and sometimes how to shower.

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Praise and Skepticism as One Executive Sets Minimum Wage to $70,000 a Year

4/20/2015

 
When Dan Price announced last week that he would cut his own pay and profits to make it possible to raise the minimum wage at Gravity Payments, his credit card processing company in Seattle, to a hefty $70,000 a year, he had little idea of the whirlwind it would stir.

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Homeless Millennials Are Transforming Hobo Culture

4/20/2015

 
On Reddit, he’s /u/huckstah, an administrator on /r/vagabond, a subreddit with nearly 10,000 members—many of them identify as “homeless”—who trade skills and stories.  On “the road and the rails,” he’s Huck, and even after we speak twice by cellphone, he tells me he’d prefer I don’t print his real name. “People say, ‘Well, you chose to become homeless.’ But that’s wrong,” he says. Huck says he’s been a hobo for upward of 11 years and started hopping trains and hitching rides at 18. “I did not choose to become homeless. If you want to say I chose to become homeless and sleep on the streets, really all I have to say is fuck you. You’ve never experienced it.”

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Rwanda Pullout Driven by Clinton White House, U.N. Equivocation

4/16/2015

 
White House Clears E-Mail Release and Susan Rice Hand-written Notes

Newly Declassified E-Mails Detail U.S. Role at Genocide Turning Point

Political Restrictions on Peacekeeping Missions Were Key to U.S. Thinking in 1994, Not Protection of Civilians or Prevention of Genocide

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The U.S. Discovery of Israel's Secret Nuclear Project‏

4/16/2015

 
Israeli Cover Stories about the Dimona Reactor Dismayed Top Level Officials Who Saw a "Clearly Apparent Lack of Candor"

U.S. Embassy Telegram Quotes Ben-Gurion Aide That It Was a "Stupid Mistake" by Israel to Cloak the Nuclear Project in Secrecy

To Prevent Military Uses of the Facility, U.S. Officials Believed the International Atomic Energy Agency Should Monitor Dimona (It Never Has)

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NASA's Secret Relationships with U.S. Defense and Intelligence Agencies

4/11/2015

 
Declassified Records Trace the Many Hidden Interactions Between the U.S. Civilian and National Security Space Programs

Secret Cooperation Punctuated by Disputes over Budgets, Encryption of Scientific Data, and Fallout from the Challenger Tragedy

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Rwanda Re-Examined

4/7/2015

 
"Unprecedented" 2014 Conference Illuminates International Response (and Lack Thereof) to Genocide

Transcript, Documents, Rapporteur's Report Published Online, Marking 21st Anniversary

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 508

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