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University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego

Storm network, which uses hijacked home PCs to relay much of the junk email

"The best way to measure spam is to be a spammer,"

managed to control 75,869 hijacked machines to conduct their own fake spam campaigns.

'proxy bots'

two of the most popular ploys currently used by spammers

firstly offering a fake pharmacy site and, secondly, offering a herbal Viagra-style remedy to boost libido.

"After 26 days, and almost 350 million email messages, only 28 sales resulted,"

$7,000 (£4,430) a day

$3.5m (£2.21m) over a year.

$34 billion requested this week by General Motors, Ford Motor, and Chrysler,

Currently, four out of every five songs purchased on the Internet come from the iTunes store, according to a release from Reuters. 

consumers should be able to switch to Nokia, Blackberry In Motion Ltd or other MP3 players without having to dump their entire music library.

The iPhone and iPod Touch both use a new version of an Apple file format known as iTunesDB.

order for software to sync with an iPod, iTunesDB must be used.

Bangkok, Thailand

Los Angeles, California

Permits are required

research, enhancement and conservation purposes

Rhesus monkeys are known to carry viruses and parasites that can be transmitted to humans

Authorities found journals and handwritten notes describing the mother and daughter's attempts to find a monkey small enough to smuggle back to the United States.

early in life.

1 in 10 children suffer physical attacks, name-calling and other social aggression at school

depression, loneliness, low self-esteem, physical health problems, social withdrawal, alcohol and/or drug use, school absence and avoidance, decrease in school performance, self-harm and suicidal ideation."

1,970 children

physically aggressive behavior in the child, harsh parenting methods (like "overly punitive" responses to kids' bad behavior) and low socio-economic status.

The best predictor, the study concluded, was early childhood physical aggression. "If a child is aggressive at 2 years of age, he's more likely to be in the higher-increasing trajectory," Boivin said. "If, in addition, the mother is hostile and reactive, the prediction risk increases."

were questioned about a range of qualities they look for in a mate

‘donates blood regularly

‘volunteered to help out in a local hospital’.

greater importance

‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

choose mates both willing and able to be good, long-term parents

Displays of altruism could well have provided accurate clues to this and genes linked to altruism would have been favoured as a result.”

President George W. Bush signed into law on Monday a controversial bill that would stiffen penalties for movie and music piracy at the federal level.

President George W. Bush signed into law on Monday a controversial bill that would stiffen penalties for movie and music piracy at the federal level.

Bush signs controversial anti-piracy law

Bush signs controversial anti-piracy law

The law creates an intellectual property czar who will report directly to the president on how to better protect copyrights both domestically and internationally.

The Justice Department had argued that the creation of this position would undermine its authority.

risks punishing people who have not infringed.

The Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Association of America backed the bill, as did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Counterfeiting and piracy costs the United States nearly $250 billion annually, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Bananas are fattening.

Cravings are your body's way of telling you it needs something.

Cooking veggies destroys their vitamin content.

Do not overboil veggies!

The move comes amid a dispute over an international disarmament-for-aid deal.

Pyongyang began dismantling the reactor, which can be used to make weapons-grade plutonium, last November.

the US said it would not remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism until procedures by which the North's disarmament would be verified were established.

caught on the zoo's security camera

The child then went on a killing spree, bashing three lizards to death with a rock, including the zoo's beloved, 20-year-old goanna, which he then fed to "Terry," an 11-foot, 440-pound saltwater crocodile

"It was like he was playing a game."

none were considered rare, some are difficult to replace

We're horrified

unable to press charges against

Children under age 10 can't be charged with criminal offenses in the Northern Territory

Correspondents say the decision is likely to anger China, which regards Taiwan as its territory and opposes US military support of the island.

"help improve the security of the recipient and assist in maintaining political stability, military balance and economic progress in the region".

causing deaths, illness and overall unease.

melamine has tainted dairy from China

salmonella was found in peppers in Mexico, there were cases of E. coli infected spinach from California and beef originating in Omaha.

The country of origin labels will now be on beef, pork, lamb, chicken, goat meat, perishable agricultural commodities, peanuts, pecans, ginseng, and macadamia nuts.

sense of safety

accountability

peppers from Mexico are safe now, as is spinach from California, consumers might not be interested in buying these foods from these locations.

salad mixes

adds spices

Mysterious DNA Found to Survive Eons of Evolution

mutations

500 regions

80 million to 100 million years

free of mutations

do not appear to code for any obvious function

Yet mice in the lab bred to lack four of these DNA strands appear healthy and don't seem to be missing any vital genes.

specific times in a species' history

effort to get some foreclosures off the market and to partner with outside groups and companies to convert those properties into affordable housing.

When you go up and down the streets, 20 to 40 percent of the houses there don’t even have people living in them,” said Cynthia Miller, Tampa’s growth management and development services administrator. “We have to do the best with what we’ve got, so we’re just looking at certain streets so that we can have some land assemblage. This is all about neighborhood stabilization, and we want to make sure vacant structures don’t become a problem.”

limited contributions, following the example of his campaign, banning contributions from corporations, political action committees, registered lobbyists, foreigners and registered foreign agents.

The public will be able to fully track donations from those giving $200 or more toward the Jan. 18-21 event

http://www.pic2009.org/donors,

donation amount, and the contributor's name, home town and employer.