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Filled with sentences cut like bait, Laird’s novel is really just the facts. And still, it drags...

Author: By Casey N. Cep, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Lawyer Helps Friend, Saves Day­—Again | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...always the website's doing. Sometimes it's an advertiser that delivers spyware through banner ads or pop-ups, and you'd only get infected if you take that bait. Sometimes hackers embed spyware traps in a website's code. But it's also not uncommon for spyware to ride into your machine on the back of something you actually wanted, nor is it uncommon for the offending programs to be mentioned by name in the end-user license agreement-something you have to agree to before proceeding. (Kazaa, for example, was notorious for bundling spyware with its popular file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seven Ways to Fend Off Spyware | 12/23/2005 | See Source »

...Alice Springs office of the N.T.'s Parks & Wildlife Commission, Steve Eldridge has a small but growing collection of dna samples waiting to be sent to Wilton. They're to be the start of genetic sampling of dingoes in the Territory where they are protected, though government staff bait pastoral properties at the request of landholders. It's a common story: Eldridge says there aren't the funds or the staff to monitor changes in dingo populations other than as part of baiting programs on properties which are losing stock. "There are a number of buckets of money for pest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dingo, Going, Gone? | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...into the Faculty Club—naked.Nonetheless, the category they created—which I would define as the big-budget pseudo-indie posing as art—is a better version of Hollywood. Occasionally oppositional, consistently satisfying, and always well put-together, Miramax’s marquee Oscar-bait productions at the very least saved us from the ’80s, in which the only films that could classify as “good” mainstream movies were overblown, revisionist historical epics like “Out of Africa.” And though their films have...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Froehlove: Move Fat Cats Devour Babies | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...this—my Lincoln Logs may have been born of an earlier time but they had evolved all along, not suddenly reappearing after a 20 year hiatus. Maybe we were all being duped by the marketing geniuses who realized that our consumer generation would more easily take the bait on buying back our youth. But if this was the case, they probably should have thought twice before they bastardized the source of all our happiness.Forget models in magazines. If My Little Pony needed lipo and a nose job to be successful in the new millennium, we have got some...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Little Pony Has An Eating Disorder | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

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