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...better than the cramped tenement on the Lower East Side where I later chose to live. But there wasn't a single tree for blocks around. In fact, when we moved in there wasn't even any grass. I remember my father out in front, in the dirt patch meant to be a yard, unloading sod and pressing it down with a huge steel sod-roller. To me it was like living in a desert. Walking home from school, sitting on a curb playing marbles, riding my bike - there was never a break from the sun. It felt like Arizona...
...hackers are exploiting an old vulnerability in the Windows NT operating system. Microsoft developed a downloadable patch for the glitch as early as 1998. But many e-commerce sites have ignored Microsoft's security upgrade bulletins. Even after the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center site published an urgent warning last December, several dozen more cases of attempted Russian mob shakedowns were reported...
...Roger Bilham: What happened was a very important earthquake. Important in that it is the largest that's happened since geologists recognized that the Seattle region is one of the few places in the U.S. that could have a large thrust earthquake. Wednesday, a very small patch slipped in the collisional boundary south of Seattle...
...boulevards are wide, and lined with palm trees and shrubs. But they overlook a big, ugly sandy patch dominated by a concrete structure overlooking the "Square of Martyrs." It had been intended as a fountain cascading the waters of Ghaddafi's unfinished "Great Man-Made River Project"; instead it serves as a dusty soccer pitch for young boys who play late into the night...
Bergman immediately discovered the truth and, instead of offering sympathy, flew into a jealous, unappeasable rage. There was an attempt to patch things up, and their child was born, but their love died, and they separated. Hagberg died years later in a car crash, having inspired, according to Bergman, at least five of the women in his films, a model of "indomitable femininity...