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...conduit for spam, which may explain why each new version boasts ever more powerful spam protection. New mail controls let you set up custom filters, but they leave a lot of room for improvement. For example, you can create "allow" and "block" lists on AOL, but there's no shortcut for uploading an entire address book. You have to type or paste them in one by one. Nor can you autopopulate your allow list with each new person you e-mail. Your best bet may be to simply reshuffle your In box according to the type of sender. AOL marks...
...elephants are agitated because the lack of food in their own natural habitats has forced them to stray into human villages; when the locals resist, the elephants get mad. Meanwhile, the Indian government seems capable of little more than punning. "The problem is elephantine and there is no shortcut solution," says elephant-affairs official H.W. Pandey. A few days in a tree might change his tune...
Serenity was not what the original visitors found when they entered the valley in December 1849 looking for a shortcut to California's gold. Bound in by mountains and running out of supplies, most of the would-be miners and their families hunkered down for the winter, while a two-man scouting party forged westward for help. Returning in late January, the scouts found that one man had died. The rest of the group survived by burning their wagons and slaughtering the oxen. The valley got its name, according to legend, when one woman looked back as the party...
...references work well the more they relate to actual situations. For example, one character complaining of a cold offers that “Innuit grandmothers will suck out your nose for you.” Still, some of the observations seem a little too forced, particularly as a shortcut to revealing character by suggesting artistic sensibilities...
George Johnson's newest book, A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer, was published this month by Alfred A. Knopf