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In 2001, Sarah Palin drove from her Wasilla home, through the downtown streets of Anchorage, to a large home near the bluffs of muddy Cook Inlet. The home belonged to Bill Allen, one of the most influential businessmen and Republican donors in Alaska history. Allen ran the state's largest oil-contracting firm, the ominously named VECO Corp., which contracted with some of the biggest oil producers in the world. Palin was wrapping up her last term as mayor of Wasilla. She had higher political ... Read More

A great-grand father believed to be the world's oldest man has died at the age of 138. Habib Mian passed away early yesterday morning after a brief illness at his home in the Alwar district, Rajasthan, India. According to records Habib was born on May 28, 1870. The grand old man was a witness to the life and times of two kings of Jaipur, the dominance of the British Raj and the decades after the Jaipur princely state of the erstwhile Rajputana merged into the ... Read More

George Ledin teaches students how to write viruses, and it makes computer-security software firms sick. In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including user names, passwords, and credit-card numbers. And Thomas Fynan floods a bulletin board with huge messages from fake users. Yet Joy and Fynan aren't hackers—they're students in a computer-security class at ... Read More