Saturday,  February 16, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 212 • 39 of 42 •  Other Editions

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people accountable for the first time for their roles in the civil war, where Bangladesh says as many as 3 million people were killed and 200,000 women raped by Pakistani troops and local collaborators.
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Facebook, home of 'The Hacker's Way,' gets hacked; none of users' personal data compromised

• SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Facebook is getting an unwelcome look at the shady side of the hacking culture that CEO Mark Zuckerberg celebrates.
• Intruders recently infiltrated the systems running the world's largest online social network but did not steal any sensitive information about Facebook's more than 1 billion users, according to a blog posting Friday by the company's security team.
• The unsettling revelation is the latest breach to expose the digital cracks in a society and an economy that is storing an ever-growing volume of personal and business data online.
• The news didn't seem to faze investors. Facebook Inc.'s stock dipped 10 cents to $28.22 in Friday's extended trading.
• The main building at Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters lists its address as 1 Hacker Way. From there, Facebook serves as the gatekeeper for billions of potentially embarrassing photos and messages that get posted each month.
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Dolphin entangled in fishing line freed after hour-long rescue effort off San Diego

• SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A dolphin that got entangled in a discarded fishing line has been freed after an hour-long rescue effort off San Diego.
• Lifeguards and SeaWorld animal specialists located the dolphin in the waters a mile off La Jolla Friday after a kayaker reported spotting the distressed animal.
• They used a pole to gather the 50- to 100-foot line, then snipped it around the dolphin's dorsal fin.
• SeaWorld mammal curator Keith Yip told KFMB-TV the cuts on the fins indicated the line had been rubbing against the 4-feet-long dolphin for weeks. He said the dolphin appeared tired and was probably not able to feed.
• Once freed, video shot from a news helicopter shows the young mammal swimming to other dolphins that apparently stayed in the area.
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