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Universities make ideal target for spammers
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Universities across the world are facing a slew of phishing scams, with both students and staff falling victim to spammers who trick individuals into divulging personal information, mainly university web mail usernames and passwords.
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Online social Networking boosts self-esteem, encourages friendships
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The Pew Internet and American Life Project, which released a report on Nov. 4, 2009, said that since 1985 the amount of close friendships people claim to have has drastically decreased.
Based on the General...
U of M encourage students, staff to self-report illness
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With the click of a button, students, faculty and staff at universities across Canada can now report their illness-related absences online. Universities in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Calgary currently have systems up and running.
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Dutch elm vaccine tested in Winnipeg
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With H1N1 causing all the hype in the news these days it’s easy to overlook other vaccination projects — especially when the vaccine is for a tree. While the final impact of H1N1 remains...
Why you shouldn’t buy lottery tickets or worry about H1N1
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As an only child, sharing was something that I did only under the most serious of threats, like the loss of television privileges for a week. In those terrible instances in which I was...
Ask a scientist
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Bullets are so 19th-century, and missiles went out of style with skinny ties and leather pants. It’s the 21st century people, and some of us want to know “where is my laser gun?”
Bullets, if...
