Valle is also charged with accessing the National Crime Information Center database illegally.

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When it is released, the Minnesota Population Center's database of digitized 1940 census records will allow researchers to build such profiles.

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Observatories around the world send their findings to the NASA-funded Minor Planet Center, which keeps a database of all known asteroids and comets in our solar system.

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Once in, he began perusing the database of 1, 100 Texas Auto Center customers with the device installed, first targeting specific customers but then going down the list corrupting records, setting off car horns, and disabling cars.

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The database will be used by the Homeland Security Operations Center, which monitors incidents around the country to determine if there's a potential threat.

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The Center for Advanced Computing provides high-performance computing systems, database, storage, programming, porting, tuning, and training services to Cornell researchers and external clients, including corporations, small businesses and IT industry leaders.

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The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, which maintains a database on field and laboratory experiments measuring plant growth responses to CO2-enriched environments has reported 45 studies that have examined effects on the garden tomato (lycopersicon eculentum).

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If you are in a mall or shopping center, organize a holiday scavenger hunt with your fellow merchants to promote to your database in your upcoming e-mail.

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The database of the Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme, a unit of the United Nations Center for Human Settlement (Habitat) was a source for some of the material in these reports.

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U.S. authorities added both the mother and son to the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE, database -- a collection of more than a half million names maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center, an intelligence official said.

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And although many of IBM's efforts in corporate markets, such as e-commerce, will center around the mainframe version of DB2, it is the NT version of DB2 that is clearly driving its database business in small and medium-size companies.

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