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Music 'can enhance wine taste'
Cabernet most affected by 'powerful and heavy' tunes, chardonnay by 'zingy and refreshing'
--BBC News

 

Rocket man! Winged man flies over Alps

 

 

Identity fraud hits net telephony Usernames and passwords from voice-over IP accounts are being traded online, a telecoms firm finds.

Estonian cyber defence hub set up Nato backs a new cyber defence centre in Estonia, following attacks on its internet structure.

 

 

 

Investor launches Yahoo challenge A billionaire investor announces he will fight to oust the present board of directors at Yahoo. Yahoo faces struggle for control Microsoft 'moves on' from Yahoo   OTHER TOP STORIES CBS buys tech news site CNET

 

 

David Brooks: The Neural Buddhists

 

 

 

Grappling With the Cosmic Questions (7 Letters)

 

 

 

DOMESTIC LIVES; A 30,000-Volume Window on the World ...fear that even that seemingly safe place may not be entirely beyond my library’s hungry ambition. Alberto Manguel is the author of The Library at Night, a book that explores the meaning of libraries through history. Domestic Lives

 

 

 

The philosophy of physiognomyM. F. Burnyeat considers hairy thighs, thick feet and other ways in which the Greek and Islamic philosophers judged character. "Black hair announces cowardice and great craftiness, excessively yellow and pale white hair, such as the Scythians and Celts have, reveals ignorance and clumsiness and wildness, and that which is gently yellow points towards an aptitude for learning." But what, asks Burnyeat, can be teased out of this "massive repository of tosh"?