Word: defect
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...mortality had already permeated the composer's household (Mahler's beloved daughter died of scarlet fever a year before), his family was not destined to hang up their mourning garb quite yet. Another death was imminent. During a routine doctor's examination, Mahler was diagnosed with a fatal heart defect. Confronted with his mortality, Mahler was consoled by a new vision--immortality. His heart, his body and his memory would erode. His music, however, would not. Mahler was set to compose his legacy. His ink was his effigy; his fear of death was his muse. And the fervor that inspired...
With so many Republicans unwilling to vote for the Democrats' proposal, the only suspense was how many Democrats would defect and cross party lines. The expectations game played out all week; at one point there was giddy talk of as many as 100, then 50 became the watermark, but in the end it was just 31. Only a few did so because they thought the Democratic alternative wasn't tough enough. The rest are either retiring and thus free to vote their conscience, or in a tight election fight and want to disarm their G.O.P. opponent. "By voting for this...
...software companies have been releasing revisions to their Internet browsers at a hellish pace, leapfrogging each other with new features so quickly that the things aren't adequately debugged. And now we learn that for the past year, their free e-mail programs have contained a dangerous defect that allows any bad guy to send e-mail that can crash your computer. (It's so easy, even...
...more sophisticated--and malicious--hands, the defect can be used to insert a "Trojan horse," a program that can stealthily take over your PC and, for instance, grab your passwords. More than 17 million PCs have the affected versions of Microsoft's Outlook 98 and Outlook Express and Netscape's Communicator...
...When AnnMarie Fischer, 39, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., gave birth to her daughter Cassie four years ago, doctors discovered the baby had a hole in her heart. Chances were good that Cassie would eventually need surgery to fix the defect if it didn't close on its own. But Fischer, who thought her previous insurance was inadequate, had trouble finding a managed-care plan that would treat her daughter's "pre-existing condition." So she was pleased to discover a local HMO that would, her insurance agent assured her, cover all her child's pre-existing conditions, including the heart...