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...short, it's October again, and investors are behaving like idiots again. This time last year it was the Y2K bug; the year before, presidential impeachment and the collapse of hedge fund Long-Term Capital; the year before that, the plunging Thai baht and Asian contagion. None of those crises proved catastrophic to U.S. stocks...
...been trying out the newest way to protect oneself: a browser-based service from McAfee.com that promises to keep any PC bug-free. Note that I said service rather than software. For $30 a year, you subscribe to McAfee.com's "Clinic," which will protect your Net-connected computer with a program that's constantly updated with the latest digital fumigants. McAfee.com's approach is an example of what's known as an Application Service Provider, a recent trendlet among Net businesses. Increasingly, software companies deliver their stuff to you exclusively online, in tiny installments that they can automatically upgrade...
...signed up for an account, and McAfee quickly uploaded a small program to my machine and installed it. The process was faster than it would have been by disc and took up a negligible amount of drive space. Every morning when I came to work, McAfee delivered a bug report that detailed any new plagues that had broken out overnight and then inoculated my software automatically...
...Stabenow, 50, positively glows charisma. Abraham, by comparison, can look a bit bug-eyed and pudgy. He often appears uncomfortable on the campaign trail. His strategist, Mike Murphy, the man who guided John McCain's presidential campaign, calls Abraham, 48, "made for radio." Murphy doesn't show the candidate's face much...
...Baker House last night, the young people in the program--some of whom will participate as part of their probation--mingled with the likes of Gates, Appiah, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, and Police Commissioner Paul Evans, over bug juice and catered hors d'oeuvres...