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When I was a teenager I played high caliber baseball. I’m competitive to a fault and when I decide I want to be good at something, results usually follow. Now I’m a third year undergrad studying computer science.
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Moai facing inland at Ahu Tongariki , restored by Chilean archaeologist Claudio Cristino in the 1990s Moai i / ˈ m oʊ . aɪ / , or mo‘ai , are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people from rock on the Chilean Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and 1500. [ 1 ] Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku , the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter.The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 black-and-white Walt Disney Productions film based on the short story A Situation of Gravity, by Samuel W. Taylor . The title character was based in part on Hubert Alyea a professor emeritus of chemistry at Princeton University , who was known as "Dr.
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Spotting the Great but Imperfect Resume - George Anders
by George Anders | 11:10 AM December 9, 2011 Recruiters and senior executives express frustration these days about corporate talent hunts at all levels. The gripe: "We're pouring tremendous energy into finding the right resumes.
Markandey Katju Dec 5, 2011, 06.53PM IST The following is the text of a speech delivered by Justice Markandey Katju, chairman of the Press Council of India, at Jawaharlal Nehru University on November 14, 2011. Friends,
Markandey Katju: What is India? - The Times of India
<img alt="Photo: Sian Kennedy" src="/magazine/wp-content/images/19-12/mf_soghain_f.jpg" title="CEO of the Internet" width="660" height="669" /> Christopher Soghoian likes to find security flaws, and then shame big organizations into fixing them. Photo: Graeme Mitchell Every Christopher Soghoian production follows a similar pattern, a series of orchestrated events that lead to the public shaming of a large entity—Google, Facebook, the federal government—over transgressions that the 30-year-old technologist sees as unacceptable violations of privacy. Sometimes he discovers these security flaws by accident, other times because someone has pissed him off, but mostly because he’s parked at his computer all day looking for security flaws. When he finds one, Soghoian, a PhD candidate in computer science at Indiana University Bloomington, learns everything he can about it and devises what he sees as a viable solution.
