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...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...
...reporters, they now need to “break the glass ceiling” and find positions where they can decide what stories to cover and who to hire.Young cited the fact that journalism is not viewed as a traditional career for Asians and other minorities as one major roadblock for minority journalists.Young, who calls himself the “Jackie Robinson of sports writing,” recalled that his father would have liked him to take over the family restaurant rather than pursue journalism.Veronica Clark, an editor of The Improper Bostonian, said she agreed with Young that journalism...
...weaving through the Baghdad traffic, the three cars came to a halt in gridlock on Route Irish. It was a few minutes before noon. American troops had blocked the road to clear away the remains of a car damaged by a bomb. Civilian vehicles between the convoy and the roadblock turned off to find alternative routes. The security men, wearing white Arab robes, sat quietly in the line of traffic. Then team leader Johnson climbed out of Ahmelman's car and began firing in the air to warn other vehicles to stay clear - an act which clearly identified the convoy...
...After Johnson's warning shots, the three cars rolled forward some 300 m to put distance between them and the traffic queued behind them. They were still about 1 km short of the U.S. roadblock. There they remained for over 10 minutes, talking nervously on their radios. Suddenly, to their right, a white Chevrolet SUV with blacked-out windows sped along a slip road, made a U turn, and stopped about 200 m away, facing the convoy. From its passenger window, a belt-fed machinegun opened fire. The first bullets announced themselves with a puff of dust beside Yeager...
McNally said he expects that Ignatieff could overcome that roadblock by first running for election as a member of parliament. That would give Ignatieff name recognition, McNally said, and the opportunity to earn a cabinet appointment before gearing up for a full-fledged national campaign...