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...provider. "I've had a lot of complaints by my customers." At some intervals, as much as 40 percent of the Internet was inaccessible by people from the Northwest, White says. When White complained to his Internet service provider, Sprint, he was told that the company was fixing a bug in its routing software. Sprint could not be reached for comment...
...late October 1992, the week that an issue of the New Yorker containing an article called "Crisis in the Hot Zone" appeared. Toby Brown read the story and, as if infected by a killer movie bug, shouted, "There's a great film here! I'm writing a screenplay on this right...
Phylloxera can be stymied by regrafting grape buds onto resistant varieties of rootstock. No such defense is available against PD. The sharpshooter aphids attack the moisture-carrying vessels of vines and can kill them off in a year. Particularly vulnerable are vineyards near lakes and rivers, where the bug lives, since spraying with pesticides is banned because of the danger to fish and water. In case of a sharpshooter onslaught, says viticulturist Jim Wolpert of the University of California at Davis, a grower's only recourse is to "yank the vines and start over...
Still, the bug is so virulent and so fast moving when it does strike that it cannot be taken lightly. It is passed by human-to-human contact, and its favorite route of infection is through an open wound. Within 24 hours the patient develops flulike symptoms, including fever and chills. Over the next day or two, these conditions worsen; a rash may develop as well...
Nearly extinct bug gets one-year reprieve from lab scientists...