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...York City restaurants. Raymond and his partners visited one of them, a Brazilian steak house on Central Park South called Plantation, and with the cooperation of the restaurant's mortified owner, they looked around the employee dressing room. There, in an open locker, they spotted the likely culprit: a black box the size of a Palm Pilot, with a slit down the front and bits of Velcro tape on the back. Called a "skimmer," the device can read and store the data embedded within a charge card's magnetic stripe--not only the name, number and expiration date that appear...
...ranked 24th, despite spending more on health per capita than any other nation. The United States "stands out as not doing as well as they should be," Chris Murray, director of the U.N. agency's global program on evidence for health policy, told the Associated Press. The culprit? Just what you'd expect from in a country that eschews socialized medicine: Its health care is the best in the world - for those who can afford it. According to the study, rich Americans are the world's healthiest people. But, said Murray, those occupying the lower rungs on the socioeconomic ladder...
Suspicion fell quickly on a possible culprit in the Philippines, in part because the virus' eight pages of computer code contained a tantalizing word: Barok. A search of virus registries quickly revealed that it was the name of a so-called Trojan horse, a stealthy software program that filches passwords, written by a Filipino hacker last year. Still, the transparency of this clue suggested that the word might have been inserted as a deliberate smoke screen to fool the computer sleuths. By week's end, the work of investigators was further complicated by the appearance of a number of copycat...
...YOUR LIFE We've all heard the bizarre reports of super-fit athletes suddenly dying during a competition. The culprit may not be a sudden heart attack after all. Doctors report at least six cases of marathon runners collapsing--and one dying--because of fluid accumulated in the lungs and brain, a syndrome known as hyponatremic encephalopathy. The problem, which may be linked to drinking too much water, is easily treatable as long as it is quickly diagnosed...
...measures at best. Long-term, there's not a whole lot Duisenberg can do except wait for Greenspan's rate-hike medicine to take effect in the U.S., because it's the U.S.' supercharged economy - 4.5 percent annual growth to Europe's 3.4 percent - that's the most visible culprit, attracting dollar investment and leaving the euro stranded...