And now in the 21st century, they are up to mischief.

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Classic Halvorsen mischief was to come up with a cover design for one issue that parodied Business Week.

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Researchers at the Black Hat conference showed just what mischief a commonly used UK PoS terminal could get up to when they inserted a chip-and-pin card crafted with malicious code.

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The resulting surge of papers revealed that the virus is vulnerable to existing seasonal-flu vaccine and common drugs, allaying fears that mischief-makers would conjure it up and wreak havoc.

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This despite evidence that the Communist Chinese remain very much the "strategic competitors" the Bush Administration confronted on taking office, thanks to, among other things, their continuing nuclear build-up, proliferation, threats to Taiwan, life-support for North Korea, trade-devastating currency manipulations and strategic mischief-making in our own hemisphere and elsewhere.

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