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A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier’s systems, exposing customers’ voice calls, data packets and physical movements to uncontrolled surveillance, according to a computer security consultant who says he worked for the carrier in late 2003.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/whistleblower-f.html

Carl Edwards, winner of Sunday’s Sprint Cup race in Las Vegas, was docked 100 points on Wednesday because his car had failed a post-race inspection.

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/nascar-penalizes-driver-for-cheating/?hp

One moment, the little girl was sitting on the couch in her home. The next, the split-level house in suburban Pittsburgh was obliterated by a natural-gas explosion and the girl — still alive — was covered with debris in the yard next to a neighbor’s house.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23500125/

Volunteers would be bitten by infected mosquitoes in vaccine study.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23490612/wid/11915773?GT1=31036

Britney Spears’ father will retain control of the singer’s assets and estate for another five months, a Los Angeles court has ruled.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7280779.stm

Investigators are searching for a woman on Thursday who was videotaped while spraying a girl with a pressured water hose at an Orlando car wash.

http://www.wcbd.com/midatlantic/cbd/news.apx.-content-articles-CBD-2008-03-06-0013.html