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...market share, the virus writers would be hard at work probing them for holes. Whether they would find as many is a different question altogether. Linux and, to a lesser extent, Mac OS are open source, which means they're subject to constant peer review by engineers and software writers all over the world. The energy that goes into finding fault with Windows exists in the Linux world too, but it's focused on making the code better. To help stave off the competitive threat from Linux, Microsoft recently allowed several governments across the world to take a peek...
...close encounter has spurred observatories and astronomy clubs to throw "star parties" in Portland, Ore., and Portland, Maine; in Winnipeg, Man.; in Austin, Texas; and in Singapore, Vienna and hundreds of other places around the world. Experienced observers will let the uninitiated peer through telescopes and binoculars for a glimpse of this heavenly show. "My phone hasn't stopped ringing," says Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute science museum and host of a show on the Mars encounter that will be broadcast over many PBS stations this week...
...kids were sort of pushing me away. I was very lonely," says Alexander, now 13. (Like other youngsters interviewed for this story, he asked that his real name not be used.) Seeking a way to help her son out of his growing isolation, Alexander's mother sent him to Peer Play Groups, a New York City-based program that works with children who are socially awkward. In weekly, one-hour sessions, Alexander learned ways to interact with kids his own age. "They taught me how to have fun, how to talk with other people at school," he says...
...Many did, some didn't, but nearly all suffered unnecessary loneliness and rejection. Spurred by a growing awareness of social-anxiety disorders in children and research that shows ways they can be helped, more and more parents, pediatricians and schoolteachers are turning to local programs like Peer Play Groups to teach social and emotional skills. They see them as a way to assist otherwise mainstream kids in overcoming the excruciating pain of feeling left...
...York City, Peer Play Groups, which opened in 1993 and is run by former school psychologist Andrew Cohen and social worker Sandra Greenbaum, has seen its enrollment rise from 30 to 80 kids in the past two years. Ginny Strock, co-owner of FriendSmarts, which runs social-skills groups in and around Palo Alto, Calif., says her practice has grown fivefold since it began in 1996. "Parents and teachers are realizing that these skills are as important as knowing how to read and that with coaching and lots of practice, kids can improve significantly," says Strock...