Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early next week of a flaw in their Netscape 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 browsers that allows web site operators to read the contents of your hard drive. So far, this is business as usual -- Microsoft experienced a security problem with its Internet Explorer browser three months ago. The rub came earlier this week, when Cabocomm, the Danish company that discovered the bug, told Netscape it wanted to be paid what a spokesman called "a large, unspecified amount of money" to give the company the solution...
...rub for Allen and others, however, is that--if the testimonials in Weil's books are to be believed--many people who try these treatments do get better. A mainstream gynecologist may not be able to explain why raspberry and nettles could help cure endometriosis, and a traditional neurologist may be stumped at how breathing exercises could dramatically relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. But the fact remains that in a number of cases these treatments appear to work. For many in mainstream medicine, of course, such a cause-and-effect disconnect sounds like nothing more than an elaborate...
...Leverett House each Tuesday night, a group of students meets to rub and squeeze away their worries...
Wake up and rub your eyes. The Harvard women's basketball team is winning the Ivy League title again...
This is the rub, of course. Western civilization is not the tired-out conventionalism as Peninsula would have you believe. There are sources of great and invigorating wisdom in the old antheap, and we should take such counsel wherever we can get it. In our foraging, however, we must be careful, unlike our fellows over at Peninsula, not to mistake irreverence for unbelief...