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Past Gems: 'Three's a Crowd' 'Mr. Fool' One of the best is this Roger Miller tune, a precursor to one of Jones' biggest '70s hits, "The Grand Tour." In it, a man considers his house and its contents after his woman has hit the road. Jones is at his clench-jawed best, emoting furiously through a barely opened mouth as he looks over their house and belongings. (Watching videos from this period, Jones' lips are so close together it's amazing that any notes come out at all.) Adding to the pleasure is some excellent session work, in particular...
...center of a $700,000, U.S.- and Brazil-financed experiment to slowly starve a patch of rain forest of life-sustaining moisture and see what happens as a result. The seemingly sadistic effort was a controlled version of what biologists fear happens periodically all across the Amazon, the precursor of a disaster that could be only a few years, or even months, away...
BEWARE GEEKS BEARING GIFTS O.K., the Love Bug struck 10 million computers worldwide, but at least your little Palm Pilot is safe, right? No longer. Last week saw the first-ever outbreak of a Trojan horse--a precursor of computer viruses--on PDAs running the popular Palm operating system. Liberty Crack, as the bug is known, masquerades as a game program, but when you install it and run it, it immediately erases all other programs on your Palm. Security experts say this is just the beginning. The smarter our appliances get, the more vulnerable they are to viruses. The next...
...Russia. That chain of events has also provided rich ground for a whole crop of conspiracy theories: that the bombs were planted by ex-KGB goons trying to push Putin into power, for instance. Some Muscovites and many liberal Russians are worried that the Pushka killings will become a precursor to a political crackdown. "Moscow is the capital of a country at war," warned Alexander Musykantsky, Moscow city's information minister. "People should live accordingly...
...SWITCH In the country's ongoing battle with blubber, researchers have discovered that a protein called Wnt-10b controls fat formation. Wnt-10b inhibited fat precursor cells in mice from becoming full-fledged fat, while, remarkably, cutting off Wnt-10b turned even premuscle cells into flab. Humans also produce Wnt-10b, so further study into what regulates the protein may someday lead to the development of long-awaited antiobesity drugs...