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...girding for a potential shortage of heating oil this winter, and European governments are trying to contain protests over the price of petrol. But Chavez boisterously reminded everyone that the supplier of 42% of the world's most precious commodity has the kind of leverage a superpower might yearn for. And by the way, the ex-paratrooper argued, rather than blame OPEC for threatening the global economic boom, the West should look closer to home--at high fuel taxes, market speculators, lagging refining capacity and a Christmas list of other ills...
...done it the last seven years?" If there was a stature gap between Gore and Bush, Bush closed it some on Tuesday by staying calm and holding his own in the face of an Al Gore who for most of the no-commercial-breaks affair could hardly contain himself. SEE IT: slow modem | fast modem | broadband...
Even when you've mastered the tricks of trading peer to peer, there are all sorts of hidden pitfalls. Files can take forever to download. Servers can crash or go offline before you finish. Files advertised as containing one song may hold another. Or they may contain a so-called cuckoo egg--a gotcha message posted by anti-Napster activists. Last week Napster users downloading the new Barenaked Ladies single, Pinch Me, and got a version implanted with a "Trojan horse": a spoken message from the band telling fans to buy the song instead. Worse still, P2P files may harbor...
...them clean the toilets and let them scrub the floor") and another verse against "the media, those mighty millionaires/ Who weave their little fictions sitting on their derrieres" and the chorus, of course, about truth marching on. The rabble got highly aroused, and some people could hardly contain their joy as they sang...
HEAVY METAL Calcium supplements may be delivering more than you bargained for. A study of 22 brands shows that fully one-third contain detectable levels of lead. Making matters worse, the contamination was not restricted to one type of calcium, such as that derived from oyster shells, or to one manufacturer, because lead levels in the same brand varied from lot to lot. To be hurt by the lead, you would have to consume high doses of calcium over many years, so researchers don't suggest you stop taking the pills. But they do call on the industry...