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How do you stop a pandemic? Seven centuries after the Black Plague wiped out a third of Europe's population, scientists are still working on a reliable answer to this evergreen question. But is it the ...

Set up and monitor alerts from various Web services with Trackle, a new competitor in the very useful gopher services department. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, ...

As a writer that works on several long-term projects throughout the week, but juggles those with breaking news as well, my schedule can get a little fragmented. At times, this leads to me being ...