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...with spyware, adware entails some compromise of your privacy. Adware often collects information on your browsing habits and sends that information back to the adware company to personalize ad content. But how the adware company uses this information, as well as how the adware was installed and how the adware resides on your computer, determines whether the program is just adware, or spyware...
...house in the hollow. Greg Lynch grew up half a mile from here, in the house his great-grandmother lived in. He picked out the spot for his future home when he was 11 years old. "We raised three kids in four rooms, and we were happy and content," Dee says, "but with Jessi's disability, we just knew there was no way." When they learned their daughter was alive but in a pretty broken state, they debated what they were going to do when she came home. "We talked about building her a room downstairs, with a bathroom...
Then came iTunes for Windows, and suddenly there was a new sheriff in town. Not content with creating a music store for PC users that was a perfect clone of its Mac counterpart, including all of the 400,000 songs Apple now has the rights to resell, Jobs added a couple of cool new features. The best is a monthly allowance you can set up for your kids to govern their online purchases--a godsend for any parent trying to curb an offspring's downloading habit...
...Characters like Mandy are easy to ridicule, and in Nell Freudenberger's short story The Orphan, part of her debut collection, Lucky Girls, the author satirizes with efficiency, content to let her targets hang themselves with their own words. But Freudenberger is after more than the easy comedy of young Americans in old Asia. She seeks the unseen forces that bind together families?both biological and artificial?no matter how far apart their individual members roam. At the orphanage where Mandy works with AIDS-afflicted children, the suddenly tender daughter hands an infant to her squeamish, confused mother, Alice...
...students have concerns about the content of advertising and its potential effect on survivors of rape, or have any questions, concerns, or comments about the way that posters are used to inform and educate students about these issues, please do not hesitate to call us, stop by our Office on the 8th floor of Holyoke Center, or call...