Washington's $8 Billion Shadow

Seeded on Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:17 AM EDT (The Latest From VanityFair.com)

Mega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the "body shops"—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last year—sells brainpower, including a lot of the "expertise" behind the Iraq war.

politics, contractors, iraq-war, mercenaries, saic

How to Be a Curmudgeon on the Internet

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:19 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Last week in my Times column, I referred to the five-note "Intel Inside" jingle often heard in TV ads. At least a dozen readers e-mailed me to inform me that the jingle is actually four notes, not five.

technology, internet, pills, trolls

Cho fits pattern of campus killers

Seeded on Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:17 AM EDT (BBC News)

Robin Kowalski, a psychologist at Clemson University in South Carolina, has co-written a comprehensive study on school shootings. She told the BBC News website that Cho's actions bore strong similarities with other killings.

virginia-tech, us-news, vt, campus-killers