Thirteen years on from the Asian financial crisis, it seems there is nothing that can stop the Thai economy: not violent protests on the streets of Bangkok, not crippling floods, not regulatory concerns over the country's largest industrial zone.
The April Fool's Day shift in the worm's functions could also reveal its purpose, triggering it to steal financial information, tamper with infected machines, send spam or target Web servers with crippling floods of requests for information.
The toll was far worse in Mexico, where Tijuana and other cities faced crippling flooding.
This thorny and provocative first book — it's about cancer, racism, scientific ethics and crippling poverty — floods over you like a narrative dam break.
Copeland's team also noted that these mice suffered from a host of immune-related problems, the most crippling being a flood of macrophages--a type of white blood cell--damaging the lungs and other organs.
Declining productivity and the crippling effects of the floods last year, which not only destroyed standing crops but also the irrigation network and property, exacerbated an already difficult food supply situation.
The evidence is all around us, from record high temperatures, wildfires, severe storms and floods to a crippling drought that has harmed communities, including so many in my state of California.
Heavy rains produced by Dina triggered flash flooding and many landslides, further crippling travel and forcing at least 2,500 people to seek refuge in public shelters.
Climate change is not an elite concern; it is a force upending American lives with crippling drought, increased urban air pollution and devastating floods.
The rogue program, technically a "worm," is largely harmless to many users, but for those who use Microsoft Outlook e-mail, the program sends itself out to every person in the victim's e-mail address book, potentially crippling the e-mail servers of companies with floods of unwanted messages.
