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...industry has this choice: change or die. Kudos to Steve Jobs and Apple for rewriting the rules and bridging the gap between piracy and the legitimate downloading of music. If that bridge happens to be lined with Apple iPods, so be it; if it happens to be "the most-benign-looking Trojan horse in software history," well, that's icing on the cake! Sarah FitzGerald Portland...
...outbreak of hepatitis A at the Beaver Valley Mall outside Pittsburgh, Pa.--the largest recorded in U.S. history, with three dead and nearly 600 infected--has got doctors and folks who eat at ChiChi's scrambling to come to terms with a disease usually considered pretty benign, at least compared with its more deadly cousins, B and C. As thousands in the Pittsburgh area lined up for shots of immune globulin, which can stave off infection if given quickly enough, disease detectives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) traced the problem to a bad batch of scallions...
There is a fine distinction between dangerous spyware and adware, a more benign type of program. Often included with free software programs, adware legitimately helps free software makers stay in business by providing advertising dollars...
...area of the ear, he made some very lasting contributions to the management of acoustic neuromas, which are common benign tumors which affect the inner ear,” said HMS Lecompte Professor of Otology and Laryngology Joseph B. Nadol, Jr. “What’s incredible is that he did that again and again in other subspecialities. Any of us would be proud to have made those contributions in one area—it’s a tribute to his ingenuity and devotion to his patients...
That may make iTunes the most benign-looking Trojan horse in software history. The Windows crowd can get iTunes free, and it offers almost all the same functionality as the paid versions of MusicMatch and Real One, two PC-based rivals. But iTunes is the only music application that will work with the enormously popular iPod, and it has features--like its powerful search function--that are unrivaled. "Once people are locked into using iTunes, the game's over," says Charles Wolf, an analyst at the New York City--based Needham & Co. investment bank. "They could sell an extra...