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...consensus among computer-security experts is that the Love Bug is the biggest virus outbreak in history--"by at least threefold," says ICSA.net's Tippett. Agrees McAfee president and CEO Gene Hodges: "It's clear at this point that this is the most damaging and the most widespread virus outbreak ever." Symantec's Moritz is more cautious, conceding that it is No. 1 in numbers and rate of spread, but for sheer destructiveness he prefers last year's Explore.Zip, an especially vindictive virus designed to destroy Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files...
...prepared for the study in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. A review of HMO and Medicaid prescription records shows that over the five-year period from 1991 to 1995, the number of stimulant prescriptions written for preschoolers (ages 2 to 4) increased twofold to threefold. That's a jump of 200% to 300%. Next we will be prescribing Ritalin for toddlers...
NIGHT-SHIFT TOLL One downside of today's booming, round-the-clock economy is heightened stress on shift workers with kids. A study in the February issue of the Journal of Marriage and the Family reveals that the risk of a marital breakup can increase as much as threefold when a mom works at night and sixfold when a dad does so. But there is no increased risk for childless couples, who do not have to juggle nighttime work obligations with daytime parenting...
...workers' biggest complaints is a shift to ceramic dishware, new to all House dining halls this year. According to Crimson measurements, while a stack of 10 of the old style bowls weighed 4.25 pounds, a stack of 10 new bowls weighs 13.75--more than a threefold increase...
...palace of higher fun and learning in Columbus is in good company--lots of it. Almost 300 science centers in the U.S. welcome 115 million visitors a year--"a threefold increase in the past decade alone," says Bonnie VanDorn of the Association of Science-Technology Centers. What's more, 40% of them plan to open new facilities or expand existing ones in the next three years. Already completed is the California Science Center in Los Angeles, launched last year. Two other major overhauls open next month, in Kansas City, Mo., and St. Paul, Minn. Each cost more than $100 million...