Word: bug
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...number 24, "Are you a vegetarian or do you eat meat?" is deceptively polite. This is not because they wish to order you a special meal on your flight to the exotic locale. It's because vegetarians make the best face of disgust when asked to consume a crunchy bug...
...poster boy of Filipino hackerdom is Onel de Guzman, the 23-year-old Manila resident blamed for allegedly unleashing last year's Love Bug virus, which wiped out files and paralyzed Internet access from Pakistan to the Pentagon. De Guzman was unemployed: he learned to hack partly by sneaking into other people's accounts to access the Internet, which he couldn't otherwise afford. That's typical: hackers in the Philippines tend to be overtrained, underutilized minds trying to satisfy their creative yearnings but kept from doing so by a variety of factors. Besides the stinging poverty that has translated...
...advice doesn't apply to individuals over 65 or those with diabetes or chronic heart and lung disease.) Patients shouldn't think they're getting poor treatment if their doctors don't prescribe antibiotics. Stick to over-the-counter products to ease symptoms. And be patient, patient! The bug will eventually go away...
...home in the Stockholm suburbs. His father was a policeman, his mother a teacher. His older brother introduced him to music. "He brought home old Kiss cassettes," Martin says, and with glam-rock blasting from the tape deck and Gene Simmons staring from the bedroom wall, the rock star bug bit hard. Martin soon started music lessons. He's still not sure why he picked French horn, hardly an obvious choice for an aspiring rocker "I guess it looked cool," he says. Far cooler was the school's music room, where he taught himself to play the drums...
...morning paper. The news is about him: a bloody turf war over the Mafia-run garbage-trucking business. The garbage war, we discover, is the new target of the long-running FBI investigation against him, and the Feds spend the taut first episode trying to plant a bug in Tony's basement - the one place in his house where he talks business - to the sound of the "Peter Gunn" theme mixed with the Police's "Every Breath You Take" (no TV series uses its soundtrack more wryly and effectively...