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...been made before, but not usually with tongue so literally in cheek. Four years later, she made Fly, in which, for 25 minutes, what appears to be a single housefly (actually there were several) is photographed at close range navigating the body of a naked woman. Even when the bug inspects the woman's lips, busies itself at her nipple or ventures between her legs, she's as motionless as a guard at Buckingham Palace. Whatever else Fly might be, it's a weirdly absorbing encounter between two forms of life, one a tireless speck of aggressive curiosity, the other...
PREGNANT PAUSE Doctors in Puerto Rico report that severe morning sickness may be linked to a bacterium known as H. pylori, the same stomach bug that causes ulcers. They found that 89% of pregnant women with intense nausea tested positive for the bacterium, whereas less than 10% of those who never felt sick came up positive. Taking antibiotics during pregnancy is generally a no-no, but women might consider getting screened for H. pylori before trying to conceive...
...journalists cooped up inside the Hotel Koryo - clean and pleasant enough, with good Korean food, Japanese beer and working phone lines. The diplomats staying at the hotel were told in their pre-trip briefing in D.C. that they would be in the part of the hotel that was bugged and had surveillance, while the journalists were in the bug-free tower...
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...
...viruses as the PC world does). Disturbingly, my PC was more than happy to accept the poisoned e-mail. It even let me read the message. I'm told that had I actually clicked on the infected attached file to view it, ActiveShield would have intervened and caught the bug. A better way to handle it, in my opinion, would have been to notify me of the infected attachment--at the time the e-mail first arrived. That's the way most antivirus programs work, and it makes sense for me. Why? Sometimes I forward mail without looking...