Raising Cain

Raising Cain

Reeling after an allegation of a long-term extramarital affair, Herman Cain, R-Sleeping on the Sofa, says he’ll make a major announcement about his foundering presidential campaign Saturday in Atlanta (Page A4).

The Buzz predicts two possibilities from the pizza magnate:

• He’s abandoning his campaign to focus on healing his family.

• He’ll declare that his campaign will carry on and he will make history as the first unmarried president since Grover Cleveland.

Time killers: A new survey finds that 53 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds go online just to pass the time and have a little fun (Page C1).

The other 47 percent apparently consider updating their Facebook status to be hard work, but somebody’s gotta do it.

A few good phreaks: A British spy agency is looking to the hacker community for the next generation of code breakers (Page A2).

You read it here first: While the great heroes of previous wars had names like Audie Murphy, the heroes of the coming cyberwars will have names like Cyanide Overflow X.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff

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