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...OUTLOOK: HOW FAST CAN THE SAUDIS CHANGE...
...Students have gotten a lot more wary and cautious. They’re not using Outlook, and they’re being careful about opening attachments,” he said. “What’s happened is that they’ve caught up to the threats that were present a couple of years ago, but there’s still a lot more...
...recently as two years ago, it was easy to avoid the impact of most viruses and worms like Melissa and the infamous Love Bug by not using too many Microsoft products. Most of the known security flaws that spurred virus writers had to do with the way Outlook talked to Word or Excel. The greatest danger was having a Microsoft monoculture on your desktop. The digital equivalent of planting only one kind of potato in your fields, it practically invited pests to do their worst...
Spoilsport economists may say it's not yet time to reach for the sunglasses, but Asia's economic storm is starting to clear. A brighter outlook for the remainder of 2003 propelled stock markets in South Korea and Hong Kong to 13-month highs last week; even Japan's moribund Nikkei index, which sunk to a 20-year low in late April, has since rebounded 35%. Meanwhile, retailers and real estate brokers in down-and-out Hong Kong say buyers seem to be slowly returning. "The general mood here has improved in the past two weeks," says Hong Kong Financial...
...region's brighter outlook is partly due to the fact that, after events in the first half of 2003, circumstances not outright painful were bound to seem like relief. The Iraq war and SARS devastated numerous Asian economies. In the second quarter, previously dynamic South Korea slipped into its first recession since the 1998 Asian crisis, while Singapore's GDP shrank by 4.2%?that country's worst quarterly performance on record...