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...virus that causes the most trouble for document creators is the macro virus, which infects primarily Microsoft Word and Excel files and of which there are over 2,000 variants...
Word allows users to create "macros"--short, simple programs that can automate various processes--and a macro virus is just a macro that is destructive...
Ambrose's macro war is suitably conventional. Allied Commander Eisenhower was the right man in the right job; British Field Marshal Montgomery was an obstructionist and all-round pain in the keister; Patton was the best field general of the war, despite eugenic notions that were strictly Third Reich--he pulled the bravest men off of the front to preserve their bloodlines...
While Soros' "macro" fund stalks giant economic trends, Cramer invests and makes his money mostly in U.S. stocks. Roughly half of his $315 million fund is locked down in stocks he believes will outperform the market over the next decade. The other half Cramer and partner Jeff Berkowitz trade every day, with a feverish enthusiasm fired by the glee of making the right bets and the crunching agony of picking a loser. In the course of a day's trading, the firm will be in and out of 50 stocks, betting millions on tiny ticks of the tape. Cramer, whose...
Huber's research is two-fold: it focuses both on the structure and function of biological macro-molecules and on their functional importance. Additionally, he studies experimental methods for the X-ray crystallography of proteins...