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...wonder. In the space of a year, according to research firm IDC, the number of uninvited entries into U.S. In boxes has shot up 85%, to a total of 4.9 trillion. Driven by cheap technology and the promise of easy profit, spammers have gone from pests to an invasive species of parasite that threatens to clog the inner workings of the Internet. For the first time last month, according to MessageLabs, more than half the emails received by U.S. businesses were unsolicited. The time we spend deleting or defeating spam costs an estimated $8.9 billion a year in lost productivity...
...that prices on DVD recorders are finally falling, the tide is starting to turn. Research firm International Data Corp. expects annual DVD-recorder sales in the U.S. to reach 10 million by 2006. The latest offerings still aren't cheap; the least expensive brand-name model costs $500. And because Hollywood copy-protects its movies, you can't use these machines to duplicate the discs you rent from Blockbuster. (Computers with DVD burners are a different story, at least for now, thanks to a DVD-ripping program that has so far survived legal challenge...
...fighting for," he says, taking a deep swig of his Scotch and ice. The police captain turned hotelier knows a thing or two about fighting?his previous career was spent battling communist guerrillas who once roved the hills fomenting revolution. His stories lend color to a stay at this cheap and cheerful resort, with its 54 bracingly basic rooms. "Some people say there are still guerrillas out there who never surrendered," he says, and I'm suddenly glad to be safe behind the hotel fence. We call for more whisky, and drink to his fallen comrades...
...once seen by the religious right as a shameful "gay disease" has become a suitable object of Christian mercy. There are limits, though. Last week poor countries meeting at the World Trade Organization in Geneva expressed "disappointment and frustration" at Washington's ongoing blockage of an agreement assuring cheap access to drugs for the developing world. American pharmaceutical companies claim they are willing to provide hiv-fighting antiretrovirals at cost for the poorest countries, since they don't want to be seen as profiting from an aids crisis that is devastating the African continent. But they worry that provisions would...
...glove compartment, Barenson suspected that a proposal might be coming soon. “I’m not good at surprising her,” Lederman says, “but I was going to do it before we left.” So, after a dinner of cheap Mexican food, he brought Barenson out to the balcony of their room and proposed to her. Conspicuously unsurprised, she said...