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During the week of Jan. 15, an innocuous-looking e-mail appeared in thousands of inboxes around the world. Its subject line read, "230 dead as storm batters Europe." The e-mail came with a file attached, bearing a plausible-sounding name like Full Story.exe or Read More.exe. Plenty of people clicked on it. After all, storms really were battering Europe at the time; that week high winds and rain had killed 14 in the U.K. alone. But all great cons have a grain of truth in them somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worm That Roared | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...catch: two months earlier, she had married Eric Nederlander, the son of a prominent New York family in the theater business. Her marriage ended, she and Seinfeld began dating, and the tabloids loved it. "I couldn't believe anybody thought it was anything," says Seinfeld of the media storm. "And I had trouble understanding how painful it was for her. I was used to it. I think I made some mistakes in that period as far as helping her through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry Seinfeld Goes Back to Work | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

Romney’s ad comes in the wake of a storm of controversy over whether current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should have been invited to speak at Columbia University while in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly...

Author: By Nini S. Moorhead, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Romney Bashes Harvard in New Ad | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

There's also been controversy over a sandstorm test for the craft. The V-22's tendency to generate a dust storm when it lands in desert-like terrain wasn't examined because "an unusually wet spring resulted in a large amount of vegetation that prevented severe brownouts during landing attempts," the Pentagon's top tester noted. But the program continued, albeit with a caution about the aircraft's ability to fly in dusty conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V-22 Osprey: A Flying Shame | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...turned out to be the perfect storm. Dozens of parents raised concerns about privacy. Many mentioned identity theft. Others expressed fear that immigrant children might be unfairly tracked by government. Eventually, Stoll's plan was scrapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Schools Fingerprint Your Kids? | 9/25/2007 | See Source »

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