Word: patches
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...gold and silver medals in short-track speed skating, propelling the popularity of the hypnotically dangerous sport, in which athletes whirl around a 111-m oval with no lane markers while wearing 10-in. razor blades on their feet. Off the ice his wisp of a soul patch and X Games 'tude helped him dominate the event known as Olympic buzz. He was so popular in Salt Lake City that even female fans wore fake Ohno patches; afterward he was named one of PEOPLE'S 50 Most Beautiful. The only thing that could have made his experience better was more...
...First Amendment was my vendor’s license,” he says.He went to the Brattle Book Shop, which adjoins the Boston Common, and talked the owner into selling him a suitcase full of 18th-century books on credit. Then he set up shop on a patch of Square pavement and sold books to passersby at lunchtime.Within a year, he had learned about rare books and how to find good ones. Soon, his customers included Houghton Library, which holds Harvard’s rare book and manuscript collection. He regularly sold single volumes at four-figure prices.He decided...
...strangled by Ronald Colman (A Double Life) and drowned by Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun). Robert Mitchum slit her throat (The Night of the Hunter); James Mason drove her to fatal madness (Lolita). She won two Oscars, for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, and lent her increasing heft to The Poseidon Adventure. But her ripest later role was as herself: a tell-all memoirist and rowdy talk-show guest who was still entertaining audiences by exasperating men. DIED. SIDNEY FRANK, 86, eccentric beverage-marketing guru who in 1997 introduced the "superpremium" Grey Goose...
...Microsoft is expected to introduce a patch soon, available to all users through Windows Automatic Update. However, the company will not confirm whether or not the patch will be available by January 10, the date of the next scheduled Windows update. "We're investigating the issue aggressively," Mike Reavey, operations manager for Microsoft's Security Response Center, told TIME. Reavey stressed the need to test the safety patch thoroughly before uploading it to users...
...Craig Schmugar, virus research manager at McAfee's Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team Labs, says that disabling the Picture and Fax Viewer is a good "roadblock," while users wait for a patch. (The downside is that if you don't have another picture viewer installed, you will have difficulty opening image files.) Schmugar also echoes Microsoft's suggestion that users check that their anti-virus software is up-to-date. McAfee and other anti-virus software makers have traced all known attacks to mitigate damage an intrusion might cause...