Word: exploited
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...virus designed to exploit a security vulnerability in Windows operating systems has been spreading rapidly through computers on the Harvard network since Monday evening, according to Coordinator of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis...
...view the American obesity epidemic is not universal. The poor and the uneducated are the predisposed targets and ultimate victims of greedy corporations who exploit their weak predicament in the name of capitalism. Government should regulate the activities of these corporate predators in order to harmonize nutritional choice irrespective of economic status. Only then will the responsibility rest with the individual. Yervant Aredjian Montreal, Canada...
Nothing to quarrel with there. But in the war on terrorism, there are always going to be two fronts: one with a shadowy enemy who is constantly trying to exploit our weaknesses, and another with ourselves. In that battle, we face complacency, bureaucracy and our own reluctance to change. Like the war on terrorism itself, this battle requires constant vigilance. --Reported by Melissa August, Massimo Calabresi, Adam Milch, Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...INDICATORS Piping In New Money Oil giants Royal Dutch/Shell and Total agreed to a joint venture with Saudi Aramco to exploit natural-gas reserves in Saudi Arabia, the first such exploration involving outside firms in about 25 years...
...enjoying their holiday ... at home. Grow up, guys. Europe's differences are supposed to be a source of strength. But all it takes is a couple of atavistic turns of phrase to remind everyone that petty prejudices live on - and that politicians and the press are still willing to exploit them. After Schröder nixed Italy, Bild stoked the fires by staging a topless "beach demo" in front of the Italian embassy in Berlin, with a front-page picture of four topless girls as evidence that Germans are "pretty, sexy and charming." No insults there, then. The kerfuffle leaves...