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...incoming mail is killed upon arrival at their mail servers. But this has spawned a kind of spam arms race: the more mail is blocked, the more spammers send, in hopes that some will get through. As a result, the performance of the mail servers is starting to suffer. Two months ago, 8% of MSN mail was spam. Today it's 50%. "The rate of spam," warns MSN business manager Kevin Doerr, "is threatening the viability of e-mail as a communications medium...
...money to buy goods. Well, duh! I didn't major in economics, but even I can figure that out. Why can't the CEOs? Maybe because they're too busy patting themselves on the back, lying to the shareholders and taking junkets to Bermuda while the rest of us suffer. Well, their day is coming. JOANNE G. MURPHY Skokie...
...After an initial blowup, Bayo, an argumentative economist from Nigeria, says he has been insulted by Kenyan psychology student Alex and slinks off to mope, complaining that "nobody listens to me." "Don't behave in this way," advises Stefan, a forensic psychologist from Namibia, "because the entire house will suffer." The contestants on the African reality-television program may be divided, but their antics have united viewers across the continent - and in the process created an unlikely cultural force. Since the launch of the program three weeks ago, millions of viewers have tuned in every evening, making Big Brother...
...child with seaweed-colored skin stretched tight over his skull. I motioned to the young attending doctor, figuring she hadn't yet noticed his death. She had. The child's lungs were underdeveloped, she explained, and lack of oxygen at birth meant he would suffer severe mental and physical handicaps. The parents, preferring not to raise a disabled boy, asked the doctor to handle the matter. The physician, whose care for my own child had been exemplary, did so by withholding treatment and nourishment from this baby until he died...
Through it all, the Harvard rowers had a focus—training so that they would never have to suffer the pain they felt after losing to Wisconsin at Eastern Sprints a year ago. Amid the chaos off the water rose a crew whose commitment on the water could never be shaken...