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http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeas...sion/index.html
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James Foye, spokesman for the mayor's office, said there are no injuries and the building was empty at the time of the explosion. He also said the explosion was contained to one room. |
(odd, I thought I read that doors were blown off of a number of rooms)
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Maryland, USA
Jan 1970
time: 00:28
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This has MIT's fingerprints all over it... 
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/Hack...ng_of_Hack.html
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Here is another classic hack:
On November 20, 1982, MIT hacked the Harvard-Yale football game. Just after Harvard's second touchdown against Yale, in the first quarter, a small black ball popped up out of the ground at the 40-yard line, and grew bigger, and bigger, and bigger. The letters `MIT' appeared all over the ball. As the players and officials stood around gawking, the ball grew to six feet in diameter and then burst with a bang and a cloud of white smoke.
The "Boston Globe" later reported: "If you want to know the truth, MIT won The Game."
The prank had taken weeks of careful planning by members of MIT's Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. The device consisted of a weather balloon, a hydraulic ram powered by Freon gas to lift it out of the ground, and a vacuum-cleaner motor to inflate it. They made eight separate expeditions to Harvard Stadium between 1 and 5 A.M., locating an unused 110-volt circuit in the stadium and running buried wires from the stadium circuit to the 40-yard line, where they buried the balloon device. When the time came to activate the device, two fraternity members had merely to flip a circuit breaker and push a plug into an outlet.
This stunt had all the earmarks of a perfect hack: surprise, publicity, the ingenious use of technology, safety, and harmlessness. The use of manual control allowed the prank to be timed so as not to disrupt the game (it was set off between plays, so the outcome of the game would not be unduly affected). The perpetrators had even thoughtfully attached a note to the balloon explaining that the device was not dangerous and contained no explosives.
Harvard president Derek Bok commented: "They have an awful lot of clever people down there at MIT, and they did it again." President Paul E. Gray of MIT said: "There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that I had anything to do with it, but I wish there were." |
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Edan
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Looks like it wasn't an accident.
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An explosive device went off in an empty classroom at the Yale University law school Wednesday, sending debris flying and students scrambling for safety. No injuries were reported and the damage was minor. |
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There were no initial indications that an international terrorist organization set off the device, according to two U.S. officials who are familiar with intelligence information. They spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"We have not received any threats prior to the incident today, and we've received no claims of responsibility," said Michael J. Wolf, special agent in charge of the FBI (news - web sites) in Connecticut.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../yale_explosion
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