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Do you worry about your calorie intake? Lie about your weight? This used to be strictly the preserve of women. Not any more It's always assumed that new year's resolutions cause the biggest increase in people signing up to a gym but, according to the Fitness Industry Association, September is by far the biggest month for business: apparently, people have “a desire to sustain the sense of healthy wellbeing experienced during a summer of activity and fun”. Yeah, right. For me, it is the ... Read More

George Ledin teaches students how to write viruses, and it makes computer-security software firms sick. In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including user names, passwords, and credit-card numbers. And Thomas Fynan floods a bulletin board with huge messages from fake users. Yet Joy and Fynan aren't hackers—they're students in a computer-security class at ... Read More

Summer at Colorado's Beaver Creek Resort is usually a time of hot days, cool nights, verdant views and the peaceful sound of the Rocky Mountains. Not this year. The area's idyllic silence is being disturbed by the sound of chainsaws cutting down large swaths of dead or dying trees in this gated community. "We have no illusions, no choice," says Tony O'Rourke, executive director of Beaver Creek's Home Owners Association. "We can't stem the tide." O'Rourke's dire tone comes from the resort's ... Read More