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...schedule into a more dramatic three-week tournament. He sweetened the pot with liberal infusions of cash from his deep pockets and sped up the game clock, discarding the time-honored classical chess format, in which players spend hours elaborating intricate moves, in favor of rapid chess, an adrenalized variant in which each game lasts just 50 minutes. "Chess had to be commercialized. Investment had to be brought in," Ilyumzhinov insists. That must be what he had in mind when he staged the 1999 world championships at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas...
Louise Bourgeois’s triptych, “Obese Bulimic Anorexic” (2001), deals with similar issues of control, self-loathing and aggression in a slightly more obvious way. Composed of stuffed, flesh colored stockings, her figures resemble homemade dolls, maybe even a variant of the voodoo doll or a reference to the fertility goddess, the Venus of Willendorf. The three figures play out an ambiguous progression of weight gain, emotional trauma and aging. Their armless bodies are scarred with seams betraying surgery, deformity or self-mutilation...
With the potential to cause havoc on infected computers on the 6th of every month, the Klez.E worm, a variant in the Klez family that carries with it a file-infecting virus, W32/Elkern.B., has spread rapidly in recent weeks and caused much concern among students...
...south of China. The so-called Asian flu, first identified in China in 1957, and the Hong Kong flu of 1968 together killed more than 1.5 million people worldwide. Considering the lethal history, scientists are keen to track the mutations of the latest virus. Although only the 1997 variant infected humans, the concern is that another fatal combination could leap the species barrier at any time."We do not know enough about H5N1," Shortridge says. "It's a dangerous situation...
Harvard had difficulty defending Cornell with a man-to-man defense, as the Big Red runs a subtle variant of Harvard’s own offense that confused the team early. The Crimson had much more success in a zone, especially once the Big Red cooled down from behind...