NO WORRIES. JACK BAUER IS ON THE JOB

Experts downplay risks

WASHINGTON - Each new Osama Bin Laden tape understandably rattles nerves - many Americans fear they signal new attacks or contain secret code words to trigger sleeper cells - but counterterror experts say that notion is largely a myth.

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JUST LIKE MY BANK BALANCE

Experts say botnets shrink in size, harder to trace

Security experts say botnets are increasingly becoming more difficult to trace as criminal hackers have developed clever means to hide them.

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JUST DON'T FIRE THEM AT CARS (see previous post)

Experts say for self-defense, nothing beats a gun

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THEY DO ADMIT IT'S A HECK OF A LOT OF FUN THOUGH

Experts Say Firing At Cars Ususally Bad Idea

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I'D LOVE TO PARTICIPATE. WHERE DO I SIGN UP?

Indoor cats live longer, experts say

Safety is on the minds of veterinarians, animal-shelter operators and advocates who urge owners to rein in wandering cats, especially during harsh weather.

Cats are able to tolerate some cold but are ‘‘at much higher risk" in the winter, said veterinarian Tony Buffington, a professor at the Ohio State University veterinary college.

‘‘Keep your animal inside," said Buffington, who has joined a national debate about cats.

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SUZANNE IS ALSO A NATIONALLY RANKED MARBLES SHOOTER

Fungal rust threatens soybeans, experts say

URBANA, Ill. – Government and industry spent millions of dollars last winter to prepare farmers for soybean rust, a fungus that could cost them thousands of dollars to control. But while the disease was found in southern states for a second straight year, it never reached the Midwest.

Soybean experts say all the Web sites, brochures and seminars weren’t a waste of time and money because farmers need to be wary again this summer.

“Just because we didn’t have soybean rust all the way up into the central part of the United States doesn’t mean that it won’t eventually get here,” Suzanne Bissonnette, a soybean rust expert with University of Illinois Extension, told farmers and chemical applicators at the university’s annual Crop Technology Conference last week. “We’re in the early stages, and I urge you to continue to pay attention to rust.”

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BYE FOR NOW, I'M OFF TO SELL ICE TO THE ESKIMOES

Some sex experts and psychologists said a brothel for women is overdue. Many more women would avail themselves of a professional if it were legal, some experts argue, for reasons not unlike those of the men who frequent prostitutes.

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I HAD NO IDEA THE JAPANESE HAD A TAX ON THAT.
I KNOW HOW TO FIX IT.

Virgin 'tax avoidance' tip of iceberg

Experts say Japanese authorities groping in the dark to find intl schemes

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CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED

Trim trees before weather gets gusty, experts say

The recent Truckee Meadows wet and windy weather is tough on trees, local tree maintenance experts said Thursday.

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WE'RE NUMBER 1!

Experts say chlamydia's on the rise

Of all the countries in the industrialized world, the U.S. has the highest rate of sexually transmitted disease (STD) infectioN.

The North Carolina-based American Social Health Association (ASHA) estimates that 19 million new STD cases occur annually in the nation. That number rises steadily each year.

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I'VE GOT SOME SUGGESTIONS - AS IN EDITING: SCORES? AS IN PROOFREADING: TACTS?

Give resolutions serious thought, experts say

Bernadette Sedillos Self
El Paso Times

Are you looking to create a new you for the new year? Scores of people choose the beginning of the year to set goals for physical, professional, personal or spiritual improvement.The problem is that many people fail to make the desired changes. Then frustration sets in, and many folks give up on their goals.

Before you dive headlong into setting resolutions for 2006, behavior experts suggest giving serious thought to goals. Ask yourself what you truly want or need to change about yourself.

"It's very important to set realistic goals," said Dr. James Wilcox, professor of psychiatry at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. "I think there are different tacts on this but it's often easier to achieve a big goal by taking one thing and focusing on that.

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