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Sometimes the spy is an "E.T." program, so called because once it is embedded in your computer it is programmed to "phone home" to its corporate master. RealNetworks' RealJukebox program was found in 1999 to be sending back information to headquarters about what music a user listened to. The Federal Trade Commission decided in May that zBubbles, a now defunct online shopping service once owned by Amazon, probably deceived consumers when it told them that the information it collected about a user's Web surfing would remain anonymous...
...that is exactly what happened one ill-fated afternoon last February. Inspectors had found a thick black mold growing between the stucco and the drywall of the master bedroom, bath, study and dining room. After some of it was identified as stachybotrys atra--a fungus that has been linked to everything from sinus infections to brain damage--an industrial hygienist warned the Ilers to evacuate. Thirty minutes later, they abandoned their home forever. "I thought, This can't be happening to me," says Sharyn. "This is my sanctuary. This is where I come when everything else is wrong...
...PAID HIS DUES Christopher John Farley's farewell to Blues master John Lee Hooker: "Like the sea, like the sky, like a pair of Levi's, like that Miles Davis song, Hooker was all Blues...
...nature of pop culture to allow the vagrant innovation, then stretch it into a trend by pounding it into a formula. In the Disney cartoon "renaissance," the excitement of the first ones, from The Little Mermaid to The Lion King, ultimately faded, whether the studio stuck to the master plan (as in the 1997 Hercules) or tried to stretch it (as in the new Atlantis the Lost Empire...
...labeled a dissident movement within China?which is how many non-Chinese first heard about Falun Gong and became interested?there are practitioners around the globe with little or no political agenda. Adherents say Falun Gong practice groups can now be found in more than 40 countries and that Master Li Hongzhi's writings have been translated into 10 languages...