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Perhaps the Hudson. If the dredging announced last week goes ahead--no sure thing, since the program will proceed in stages and can be shut down if it doesn't yield the desired results--will the river get better? Dredging even a small patch of riverbed can be a messy job, one that could merely stir up buried PCBs. Proponents argue that the remaining PCBs in the river have to go, and that when they do, the risk of cancer they carry will vanish with them. The EPA's research is on the side of the greens, but only when...
...they also had their name inextricably linked with the well-being of the Internet itself. This quote from Tuesday's Wall Street Journal is typical: "the Code Red worm may disrupt the Internet on a global scale ? the FBI urged owners of business-type servers to install a patch from Microsoft's website." When the world's in trouble, in other words, Bill Gates comes riding to the rescue...
...servers run other companies' software, and were therefore never affected in the first place. Never mind that it was a sadly typical security flaw in Microsoft's server software that allowed Code Red to flourish. Note also that the million-plus people drawn to Microsoft's website by that patch included many thousands who didn't need it (the worm only hits Windows NT or 2000. Windows 95, 98 and ME are unaffected...
...environment that surrounded them, scientists have come up with several theories. Anthropologist Henry McHenry, of the University of California, Davis, for example, champions the idea that climate variation was part of the picture after all. When Africa dried out, say McHenry and his colleague Peter Rodman, the change left patches of forest widely spaced between open savannah. The first hominids lived mostly in these forest refuges but couldn't find enough food in any one place. Learning to walk on two legs helped them travel long distances over ground to the next woodsy patch, and thus to more food...
...ogling the cool blue taskbar and gorgeous 3D icons the afternoon Microsoft announced - very, very quietly - that there would be no Java support built into XP. When the final version is launched, if you really truly want to use Java you'll have to go to Microsoft.com, download a patch and alter the security settings of Explorer. Not too difficult for true believers, but way too much effort for the average user who thinks more about java at Starbucks than when he's sitting in front...