Word: macs
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Some bemoan this Americanization of the world, the decline of cultural diversity. Go to Europe, eat a Big Mac and watch Scary Movie 2. Can’t we get away from ourselves anywhere...
When I heard that a major worm, code red, was about to strike computers worldwide, I immediately got on my Mac and tried to catch it. I figured if I could infect my computer so badly that it broke, I wouldn't have to do the little bit of work expected of me. If the affliction went well, I might bring down all of AOL Time Warner. I have a real problem with the company since it took away our Snapple. That, and I had to sit through part of that last Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan movie...
When I heard that a major worm, Code Red, was about to strike computers worldwide, I immediately got on my Mac and tried to catch it. I figured if I could infect my computer so badly that it broke, I wouldn?t have to do the little bit of work expected of me. If the affliction went well, I might bring down all of AOL Time Warner. I have a real problem with the company since it took away our Snapple. That, and I had to sit through part of that last Tom Hanks?Meg Ryan movie...
...unclear whether President Bush will sign such a provision. He has spoken against racial profiling in only the most general terms. But conservatives are mounting a campaign to defeat the legislation. In the City Journal, based in New York City, Heather Mac Donald, senior fellow of a right-leaning think tank called the Manhattan Institute, argues that disproportionate traffic stops may be rational because there is "some evidence" that minorities commit more traffic violations per capita...
...Mac Donald also writes that "in Illinois, blacks have a higher motorist-fatality rate than whites." And blacks do have more fatal traffic accidents per mile driven than whites, but the difference is negligible. According to Siim Soot, the transportation expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago from whom Mac Donald obtained her data, in 1990 whites in Illinois had .014 fatalities per million miles driven while the rate for Illinois blacks was .015 per million. Latinos in the state did have a much higher rate--.022--but Soot's sample of Latinos was quite small. "The conclusions here...