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...most common attack reported by hacker watchers makes use of a Trojan horse. These are programs with bizarre names like Back Orifice or Net Bus that can be hidden in an e-mail attachment--say, one of those animated birthday cards people seem to like e-mailing. Once you open it, you've installed the software--and the wily hacker has remote control of your...
...infants should never be put to sleep in adult beds because of the risk of entrapment or suffocation. This is the first study to quantify the number of fatalities resulting from infants' sleeping with adults. The American Medical Association agrees that this is vital safety information that parents can use in making decisions on how best to keep their infants safe. ANN BROWN, CHAIRMAN U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Washington...
...debate over the use of artificial turf in athletic stadiums and its role in player injuries is one of long standing [SPORT, Oct. 4]. As a researcher of football-injury risk factors, I believe scientific studies of artificial turf have been inconclusive, because natural grass has been treated as a single entity. The hardness, density and traction of natural grass vary significantly from field to field. Since natural grass changes with the weather, it is very difficult to compare it to artificial turf. The relative injury risk for artificial turf vs. natural grass will be understood only when researchers...
...lawyer, Mark Holscher, is underwhelmed. "It is unfortunate that unnamed sources appear to be attempting to use the press to revive this flawed investigation," he said. "We continue to believe and expect that Dr. Lee will be exonerated...
...observes that U.S. job culture still has not woken up, so to speak, to the need for more adaptation. Doctors, he notes, enter residency programs expected to work 36 hours in two days, having been taught almost nothing about how to sleep during the day or how to use naps to offset the effects of exhaustion. "The macho thing is very significant," he says. "Those who have been living with this for so long believe that the people who did not make it were the wimps. Very often the only catalyst for change [in such environments] is an accident...