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...most popular free programs: Net Stumbler or Aerosol for PCs, AP Scanner for Macintosh. You don't need street addresses with these; just drive around a busy part of town, and networks will pop up on the screen. A lock symbol means a network is encrypted and its owner is not feeling neighborly. Tapping into it could get you in big trouble...
...conventional treatments: training, along with diet and exercise changes. More serious problems--overly aggressive dogs, compulsive lickers and tail chasers, cats that urinate all over the house--are often treated with well-known antidepressants (Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac). Not surprisingly, some pets end up on the same medicines as their owners. That fuels some vets' criticism that the treatment is just an exercise in anthropomorphizing the animals. But Dodman, a pioneer in this field, writes of Romeo, a King Charles spaniel that was a compulsive licker. Romeo also barked constantly, to his owner's and the neighbors' distress. Prozac was prescribed...
Baffert looks at as many as 4,000 horses each year and buys maybe 50. "The horse was just starting to come around," he says, "and [the owner] thought what everybody else thought, that he was a creature of that [short] track." He was a creature all right. Baffert put War Emblem through a crash course in obedience, changing bits and using a tongue tie to keep him under control so that he wouldn't sprint like mad for the entire race...
...five major-airline owners of Orbitz claim they formed the website to reduce the high cost of booking air travel through traditional computer reservation systems, and they recently eliminated commissions to travel agents. A Travelocity spokesman points out, however, that Orbitz's owner airlines are paying the website a fee of about $14 a ticket--roughly twice as much as Travelocity charges. "Orbitz's special provisions have made the playing field for airline tickets severely uneven," says Antonella Pianalto, head of the Interactive Travel Services Association. Orbitz counters that other websites favor certain carriers by charging them lower fees...
INTOXICATING TEAIn contrast, the soft sell rules downstairs at the Sri Maa Perfume Shop. Passersby are offered seemingly innocent cups of the Sri Maa Special Masala Tea, so flavorful it's addictive. Owner Shiku pours smaller and smaller doses of it, to the point where his victim will buy anything to get another cup. Once the requisite fragrant oils are purchased, Shiku produces a tiny gold velvet bag redolent of rare spices: cinnamon, cardamom, clove, mace, nutmeg and saffron?the secret to his house blend. "For five dollars," he whispers, "you can make the tea at home." But when...