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...ward off humidity. Locating a likely spot, the villagers lighted the fuse on a 110-lb. lump of homemade dynamite and blew a hole in the middle of a wheat field. Having blasted their way to a spot near the top of the tomb, they donned gas masks to filter out the stale tomb air, then tunneled into the burial chamber...
...crazy. Gary Larson, who abruptly quit producing the Far Side cartoon nearly nine years ago, has no intention of ever picking up a drawing pencil again. This is the first time in months he has seen his downtown Seattle office, which his business-manager wife and assistant use to filter the paperwork needed to pump out Far Side greeting cards. Larson, whose surreal, pothead-meets-scientist take on humans' overestimation of their species made cartoons cool, prefers his nondrawing, noncelebrated existence. "Life is good," he says, sitting at a wooden conference table, holding an antique specimen jar of chattering-teeth...
...SpamAssassin filter identifies a lot of [Sobig e-mails], but students still have to check their spam folders,” Steen said. “The e-mails add up very quickly, and they might fill the inbox and not allow in any more mail...
...week since Uday and Qusay were shot dead at a house in Mosul, and it's not clear that their slaying has had the desired effect. Of course even if the deaths of Saddam and his sons would end the insurgency, the effect might take some time to filter down. But U.S. commanders on the ground in Iraq say they're facing a multi-layered, decentralized fight, and aren't betting that it will necessarily be subdued by the decapitation of the old regime...
...YAHOO Since Yahoo rolled out an enhanced version of its SpamGuard back-end filtering system in March, spam reports from users dropped 40%, according to a representative. The bulk-mail filter clears a good bit of spam from your In box but not all. It also traps quite a bit of legitimate mail, so be sure to check it before executing a mass delete. You can create custom filters based on such things as keywords in a message's subject line, but these are the easiest filters to fool. Some spammers simply add a period in the middle...