Word: spate
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recent spate of warm and sunny weather may be helpging to stores crowded...
...minute, two years ago, we all felt silly for having cared so much about Monica and Gennifer, for obsessing over Britney, for indulging a spate of shark attack stories in what turned out to be a year in which there were fewer than usual. Newspapers proclaimed “The Death of Irony,” and a nation resolved to rethink its priorities in the face of tragedy. The Onion, perhaps sensing what was to come, published the headline, “A Shattered Nation Longs to Care about Stupid Bullshit Again.” Now, sure enough...
...potential threats is as wide as the imagination. The same could be said for vulnerabilities to the computers we depend on. Families must guard their computers against novice vandals planting viruses or against more advanced intruders leeching your computing power to launch a cyberattack on someone else. Despite the spate of devastating viruses this year--Slammer in January, Blaster and Sobig in August--the threat has evolved past the 17-year-old hacker, past the lone thief who steals and reveals credit-card data. Businesses must now watch for organized-crime groups adept at lifting valuable, private information and extorting...
Organized by Women In Color, the event will bring themes such as gender, race, class and sexuality together with riveting art and entertainment. Student performers include new band Forced Premise (comprised of four Lampoon dudes) and singer-songwriters Liz Carlisle and Juliet Girard, as well as a spate of spoken word artists. Promises to be a funky and liberating show, with complementary coffee and donuts. 8 p.m. Friday. $3 door. Winthrop...
...possible that the radioactive traces are the result of contamination. "We're not any further along," one told TIME. It's a Crime SOUTH AFRICA A government inquiry into attacks on white farmers concluded that most were criminal, not racial, acts. The inquiry was launched in 2001 after a spate of violent assaults on white landowners raised fears of a Zimbabwe-style land grab. Although nearly 1,500 white farmers have been murdered since 1991, the inquiry revealed that only 2% of the attacks were racially or politically motivated. Stoning Overturned NIGERIA A woman convicted for adultery and sentenced...