Vox Sentences: France remains on guard

1. Aftermath in France

Tributes to the recent terrorist atrocities adorn Place de la Republique on January 12, 2015 in Paris, France. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

• France is still on alert five days after the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, sending thousands of police officers and soldiers to guard Jewish schools and other potential attack targets.

  [NYT / Alan Cowell]

• Police believe that about six members of the terror cell that carried out the attack are still at large.

  [AP]

• Charlie Hebdo's first cover since the attack shows the Prophet Mohammed with a "Je Suis Charlie" sign.

  [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]

• Millions attended marches on Sunday protesting against the attack and for free speech.

  [NY Mag / Caroline Bankoff]

• Most European countries sent their head of state and/or government to the Paris march; the Obama administration expressed regret for not sending a senior official.

  [Vox / Dylan Matthews]

• A lot of countries that do not themselves have free presses sent heads of government and other senior officials to the event.

  [Washington Post / Adam Taylor]

2. A tiny hack

How the CENTCOM account appeared after being hacked.

• ISIS supporters hacked into the Twitter account for CENTCOM, the US military command in charge of the Middle East.

  [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]

• This probably isn't that big of a deal; hackers target the US government all the time.

  [Slate / Fred Kaplan]

• An XKCD comic explains how to think about it: "What people hear: someone hacked into the computers of the CIA!! What computer experts hear: someone tore down a poster hung up by the CIA!!"

  [Vox / Amanda Taub]

• Insofar as it matters, it matters as a propaganda victory, not because any sensitive information was compromised.

  [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]

• Concerningly, it took more than 40 minutes for Twitter to suspend the hacked CENTCOM account.

  [New Republic / Jessica Schulberg]

3. Misc.

• The press has moved on, but the Ebola epidemic is still very real.

  [Vox / Julia Belluz]

• Fig and snail pizza is a thing in South Korea.

  [Slate / Annette Ekin]

• A thoughtful, gripping history of East Palo Alto, segregation in Silicon Valley, and the roots of the tech industry's race problem.

  [TechCrunch / Kim-Mai Cutler]

• Pollinating California's almond crop requires shipping in billions of bees from Florida every year.

  [Pacific Standard / Josh Dzieza]

• Ever wish you had a worksheet to use on first dates to ensure they wind up being super-intense and terrifying? Turns out that exists.

  [NYT / Mandy Len Catron]

4. Verbatim

• "They opened a bag of sandwiches and bottles of beer. Then they donned gloves and divided up what they’d stolen — a trove of 1,000 files from the FBI’s own offices."

  [Philadelphia Magazine / Steve Volk]

• "The structure of this sentence reveals [Chuck] Todd’s entire analytic method: The administration’s substantive success is the dependent clause."

  [NY Mag / Jonathan Chait]

• "I think if the empirical research on any other policy showed similar results that charters do for poor students and black students it would be far more widely embraced."

  [Forbes / Adam Ozimek]

• "The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male."

  [Raphael Bob-Waksberg]

• "I have learned that being an adult is actually hard."

  [An 11-year-old boy to New Yorker / Rebecca Mead]

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