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...here's one important security measure the report failed to mention: check your hard drive for spyware. Spyware is any kind of program installed in your computer without your consent to gather information about you or your organization. A typical piece of spyware will watch over your shoulder while you browse the Web, record your mouse clicks and broadcast all that information back to another computer (ostensibly for marketing purposes). It's part of a class of increasingly surreptitious software that includes adware (which serves up commercials you didn't ask for--as if pop-up ads weren't enough...
...document Bush elucidates his unapologetic preference for preemptive action against countries like Iraq, who he says pose a direct threat to the United States. The document also presents the president’s willingness to attack without any international support. But without U.N. consent, a unilateral preemptive invasion of Iraq would shatter the cherished post-war-era value of states’ territorial sovereignty. And other countries, too, would be able to exploit the doctrine of preemptive invasion without consulting anyone. Russia is already exploiting the war on terrorism to bomb Georgian territory in the Caucuses...
...things for which reporters have historically got in trouble. Bob Greene, 55, a nationally syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune, best-selling author, local institution and married man, had admitted having had a sexual liaison over a decade ago with a teenage girl who was at the age of consent...
...Russian helicopter in neighboring Ingushetia, after reportedly entering the area from Georgia. But this particular scene is part of Marsho (Freedom), the first-ever Chechen feature film, shot on a $14,000 budget, with a mixture of Chechen and Georgian actors, a minimum of official permission and the tacit consent of local guerrillas. During last winter's filming, Pankisi was a little-known backwater where no Georgian policeman dared tread. Now it is the center of an ominous dispute between the Kremlin and Georgia, as Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze struggles to hold together his crumbling, corruption-ridden state...
...maintained that Saddam Hussein's recent offer to comply with new arms inspections means that no new resolutions are necessary. But Kremlin-watchers have long suggested this was a bargaining strategy, designed to win guarantees on Russian interests in a post-Saddam Iraq, and also to win U.S. consent for Russian military action in Georgia. Moscow says the pro-NATO government in Georgia is sheltering Chechen rebels, but until now Washington has warned Russia against attacking the former Soviet republic...