The C.E.O. Vanishes, and Other Mysteries
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Why did PeopleSoft, in the midst of a takeover fight with Oracle, fire its chief executive and president? Who knows? And that's a problem.
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When two bodies were found in a rig at a truck stop on the well-traveled route to Houston, some drivers figured it was an accident &#151; maybe carbon monoxide poisoning. When another body was discovered there weeks later, they called it a mystery.
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EBay said John Donahoe will replace Meg Whitman as C.E.O. The company, which reported a jump in fourth-quarter profit, muted its projected first-quarter revenue and sales for 2008.
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Also: Mysterious stone slab bears ancient writing. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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What was supposed to be A Public Affair has ended up being   pretty hush-hush.
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A theft from a doping lab near London. A break-in at an office outside Dublin. Anonymous faxes and sinister turns. An investigative trail that stretches from Switzerland to Hong Kong.
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Also: Stephen Hawking looking for assistant. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Cassini&#39;s latest sweep past Saturn&#39;s moon Titan revealed more intriguing pictures of the surface but left many mysteries intact.
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Here's an up-to-the-minute round-up from Europe of what has been doing in the ongoing potboiler regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the missing 3-year-old girl who allegedly was kidnapped from her room at a Portuguese vacation resort in May. Should you have had your head buried in the sand during the past few months or were abducted by aliens, first the background: Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann had allegedly put all of their children to bed in a room at the Portuguese vacation village and were "relaxing with friends" over a few drinks at a tapas bar close to their room. Yes, the children were alone, unsupervised, but "being checked up on regularly" by their doting Doctor-parents. Varying accounts exist of how much alcohol was consumed during the evening. At the last bed-check, allegedly around 10 pm, Mrs. McCann allegedly discovered Maddie to be missing. Early reports indicated she returned to the tapas bar shouting hysterically "They've taken her, they've taken her." A massive month-long manhunt ensured and failed to turn up any clue of the little girl, despite leads pouring in, sightings of her in places as far away as Belgium. Vowing not to leave Portugal until Maddie was returned to them, the McCanns fled Portugal for the safety of Britain last week when Portuguese authorities stopped just shy of directly accusing the couple of having either accidentally or purposely killed their daughter and covered up the toddler's death with a fake abduction story. Since then, the accusations have been flying, tensions mounting and tempers here on Topix in the various fora running hot and heavy. And now, as a public service from Europe, a round-up of the latest headlines concerning the disappearance/death/kidnapping/murder/story of Madeleine McCann, age 3... (more) *********************************************
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Police investigating the disappearance of a mother of two say they have received three reported sightings.
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On hundreds of Web sites worldwide, the messages are brief but poignant: "Missing: Christina Blomee in Khao Lak" or "Where are you?" Some are nothing more than names, ages, nationalities. Others list details of where loved ones were last seen. Some have pictures of the missing.
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By MARCUS WOHLSEN  SAN FRANCISCO - Friends of an acclaimed computer scientists who vanished at sea said Wednesday they were expanding their search for him to waters off Mexico, nearly a week after the Coast Guard called off its own search.
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In many instances, stolen art masterpieces are recovered almost out of the blue, long after investigators have stopped actively pursuing leads.
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There are multiple known instances of lost or stolen tapes but, to the best of my knowledge, not one reported instance of anyone recovering and maliciously using data stored on missing tapes. It's just too hard for an average thief to retrieve it.
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The forensic science of processing and identifying the dead
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In Latin America, the memory of the "disappeared" never went away. In the United States, they were hardly ever known.
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Some members discover itâs tough to erase all their information from the site.