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...Spyware usually gets onto a user's computer by hiding behind other software downloaded from the Internet. "The first ones we saw were attached to end-user license agreements,"says David Perry of Trend Micro, a computer security services provider with a presence in 26 countries. "You were unwittingly agreeing to it [by not reading the agreement]. But the vast majority of spyware today is installed entirely without your knowledge...
...brewers shipped 1.2 million fewer barrels than in the year before. But Americans haven't totally lost their taste for beer. "They may not be drinking more, but they're drinking better," says Gary Hemphill, vice president of the Beverage Marketing Institute. Specialty beers, benefiting from a nationwide trend toward affordable luxury, grew 7.1% in the first half...
...Harvard women’s tennis team has been on a roll to start the spring season and, based on the success of last weekend’s performance, expects to continue that trend in the coming weeks. For the first time in program history, Harvard advanced to the semifinals of the ITA National Indoor Championships, held in Madison, Wisconsin. The tournament, which featured 16 of the nation’s top teams, was a thriller for Harvard, which upset No. 6 Georgia and No. 16 Texas Christian University by 4-3 scores to reach the Final Four. Though...
...applaud. Coinciding with his goals outlined in the State of the Union, Bush proposed new federal grants of up to $4,000 dollars for students studying math, science, and certain foreign languages. Republicans and Democrats alike have called for new legislation to stunt what they see as a trend of a decreasingly competitive U.S.—particularly in the fields of technology and engineering. We hope that the proposed initiative will serve as an incentive for students to study fields in which the U.S. is lagging. In the end, however, the numbers don’t add up. Proposing...
...Senators who have attacked these measures want to specify a more stringent standard under which the FBI can demand these records, as well as address what they see as the lack of meaningful judicial review of the provisions. But some students said they were most preoccupied with the broader trend of increasing government access to personal information. “People who are concerned about the Patriot Act aren’t as concerned about the implications now as they are for what it might mean about the direction America is taking,” Eric D. Lang...