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on Bin Laden’s head now stands
at $50 million — far more than
the nearly $125,000 that 10,000
grams of gold is worth.
The recording promised the
same reward for the deaths of
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan and his envoy to Iraq,
Lakhdar Brahimi.
“The United Nations is noth
ing but a Zionists’ tool, even if it
worked under the cover of pro
viding humanitarian aid,” the
voice said. ”... Whoever kills
Kofi Annan or the head of his
commission in Iraq or a repre
sentative like Lakhdar Brahimi,
he will be awarded the same
prize of 10,000 grams of gold.”
The speaker promised a less
er prize — 1,000 grams of gold
— to anyone killing a citizen of
countries he called “the masters
of the veto like Americans and
Britons” — a reference to
nations with veto power on the
U.N. Security Council.
Parchure suggests that students write their names on a random
page in each of their textbooks so that in case one of their books is
stolen, they could easily prove which book belongs to them.
"There are always people who will do anything for a few bucks ”
Parchure said. "Simple precautions need to be taken."
Chuck Rheay, general manager of University Bookstore, said the
store generally IDs people so that if suspicious activity arises, the
police can be contacted right away. Last semester, there was a case
at University Bookstore involving illegal sell-backs, and this semes
ter there has been a similar case involving a local sorority house
worker, Rheay said.
“One guy was shoplifting and selling (back to) different book
stores last semester,” Rheay said.
At the MSC Bookstore there have been some investigations this
semester, but they have not found anyone illegally selling books
back, Scott said.
It is initially hard to tell when someone is selling books that are
not theirs, but if they are selling back an unusually large quantity of
books, it does seem suspicious, Rheay said.
"Don't leave your books lying around at the library” Rheay said.
Rheay said putting your name in your books can only do so much
because once a book is in the system, there is no way of really know
ing whose book it is.
It is important for students to keep your books in their posses
sion, Scott said.
“Unfortunately, there are people out there that take advantage of
others,” Scott said.
Continued from pagelA
be replaced. Current Ajjit
Cards contain Social Security
numbers embedded in themaj.
netic stripe. He said anyone mi
a card reader can reveal the card
holder’s Social Security number.
Bob Mask, Aggie Card
supervisor, said the new cardt
will no longer contain Social
Security numbers.
“When we get students into
the system, their U1N will be
stored and the computer will
generate a random number that
will be put on the card toidenti
fy that student," Mask said.
Mask said when the card is
swiped the random number is al
that can be read. He saidanunau
thorized person with a card read
er would not be able to determine
the significance of the number.
Mask said a schedule will be
set up for students to replace
their Aggie Cards.
"The replacement of card
will be done in phases, and there
will be a major use of Neoto
alert students," Mask said. Hie
biggest thing we're trying todo
is to keep people from waitingii
long lines.”
Mask said that if there are no
problems, distribution of the
new cards will begin May24ai
New Student Conferences.
Wu said that after May24.no
cards will be issued using the
old format.
Putnam said that during the
conversion process, all card
readers w ill be able to read the
old and new Aggie Cards.
"We want to make people
aware that if they have old cards,
eventually the cards won’t
work ” Putnam said.
Professors are no longer
allowed to use Social Security
numbers for grade reporting.
Putnam said. Many professor',
he said, will begin using UINs
for grade recording.
Putnam said UlNs should not
be used for authenticating putpov
es. The Net ID and password used
by Neo and MyRecord, he said,
should be used in any instance
where authentication is required.
“Just having the UIN by itself
w ill not give you access to any
thing,” he said.- ♦ « *
Putnam said that in the
many interdepartmental fur
tions were linked using Socii
Security numbers.
"The UIN will be a linking
value for things like financial aid
and admissions and records."
Putnam said. “As a linking value
we hope people won’t see it"
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new ‘smart shoe’
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -
Adidas says it has created the
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mating it with a computer chip
that adapts its cushioning level
to a runner's size and stride.
The Adidas 1 is the product
of a three-year secret project
the German company devel
oped at its U.S. headquarters,
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