Cyber Attack Charges: Google vs. China

Google has threatened to pull out of China, saying that Chinese hackers have targeted Google and up to 34 other companies. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China to investigate such attacks, saying they raised “very serious concerns.” Five years ago, Google agreed to allow some censorship by China, in exchange for the right to operate in that country’s massive emerging technology market. The company now says censorship and the hacking of Chinese dissidents’ Google e-mail accounts have prompted it to reconsider.

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India Tightens Air Security

P.N. Sukul, joint secretary for India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation, said the alert was based on intelligence indicating that terror groups were planning an attack involving a flight from a South Asian country. The threat might be aimed at one of the flights operating in a member country of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation or in Myanmar, formerly Burma, he said. The association members besides India are Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Pakistan. In December 1999, hijackers commandeered an Indian airliner with more than 150 passengers, forcing pilots to fly to Kandahar, Afghanistan. It had been flying from Kathmandu, Nepal, to New Delhi.

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Haiti Earthquake Update

Another aftershock rocked Haiti on Friday. Buildings shook. People looked around to see what else might fall. Then they returned to what they had been doing.  At a park in the capital that has become a tent city, a group of kids resumed their soccer game.Aftershocks have become a way of life in this devastated country along with so many other life-threatening challenges. The 7.0-magnitude quake was more than 40 times stronger than the 5.9-magnitude aftershock, researchers said. While each new earthquake can slow relief efforts, those efforts were advancing Friday, including at the port, where critical supplies are being shipped in.

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Better Airport Security

Well air port security is going to try to make security a lot tighter after someone tried to blow up a plan on Christmas day. Luckily the bomber was stupid and couldn’t set off the bomb, a true miracle because lives did not come to an end on a special day. Isaac Yeffet, the former head of security for El Al has a good idea for security. He says that people are better than machines, he said he knows that machines can malfunction and dangerous weapons can come through. He believes that people should do searches instead of machines because we as humans can feel an object being hidden because we are smart and if we feel an object that they did not pull out of their pockets they know something is going on.

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Water Repairs Continue In Downtown Nashville

As many of you people have already heard 4 of the water pipes busted in downtown Nashville. Well I want to touch up on this topic to tell people who don’t know much about what happened. on Sunday workers started to repair a 36-inch main pipe on Second Avenue South, which cut off all the water to all the popular spots where people take tours. The other 2 pipes are both 24 inches one is on Broadway and the other water pipe on Second Avenue North. But they can’t fix it the problem is the water is frozen and Nashville isn’t getting warm enough for it to melt.

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Man Strangles Bobcat

On December 16th 2009 a man strangled a Bobcat to death. The Yavapai man choked the animal by his bare hands, the officials from the Arizona Game and Fish Department were shocked at 1st that a small animal attacked a human. But after testing the animal the results came back and the wild animal was rabies positive. Officials couldn’t understand how a man was able to strangle a dangerous animal that had rabies. The attack happened in Gruver’s yard near Crown King Trail in Yavapai County, about 12 miles north of Lake Pleasant.

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