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...might think the sheer volume of e-mail would mean you could get away with a crack about the boss's Viagra use. But sophisticated software helps employers, including Merrill Lynch and Boeing, nab folks who traffic in trade secrets or sexist jokes. One called Palisade can recognize data in varying forms, like the content of NFL playbooks, and block them from your Out box. SurfControl, MessageGate and Workshare check work files and e-mail against a list of keywords, such as the CEO's name, a company's products or four-letter words. Wall Street and law firms sometimes...
...chuckling as we watch." When composing An Italian in Britain and Ciao, America!, his U.S. best seller, Severgnini was writing for Italians - translating them was an afterthought. "This time it was the other way around. Bella was written for an international audience," he says, even though Italians got first crack at reading it last year. In a typically culinary metaphor, Severgnini says: "It's like when you cook a good meal for your fiancée and your friends love it." In La Bella Figura, he takes us on a 10-day whirlwind tour of the country. A purposeful...
...response to a crisis overseas. Even the Wall Street Journal's quasi-wingnut editorial page cautioned, in the midst of a typical anti-Democratic harrumph, "[No] President can maintain a war for long without any support from the opposition party; sooner or later his own party will begin to crack as well...
...Where Prep was about love and social class, Man of My Dreams is very much a book about love, love, love, but Sittenfeld shows us that there is still something fresh to say about the oldest subject in the world. "Every episode is supposed to be her trying to crack the code of romantic love," Sittenfeld explains, "and skipping the boring parts in between." Sittenfeld is unusually willing to let her characters come off as less than charming from time to time ("You make yourself miserable, and you make the people around you miserable, too," Hannah's sister spits...
...loaded at Sevilla's refrigerated warehouse in Barbate, and who refused to be named. "That is because [in Japan] we have nothing left to fish." Environmentalists want the rules tightened. At iccat's next meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in November, environmental groups and the U.S. will be attempting to crack down on overfishing. But Bregazzi is gloomy. "You are talking to a very pessimistic man," he says. "Bluefin tuna is on the verge of collapse, if not collapsing as we speak." WRANGLING The debate over who controls the Mediterranean's resources goes beyond fishing. About 30% of the world...