the girl with many heads

Splenic marginal zone lymphoma: hydra with many heads?

In this issue of the Journal, Baseggio et al. 1 report on a series of 24 patients with CD5-positive, t(11;14)-negative splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) diagnosed by means of cytology and flow cytometry of peripheral blood. All the patients were splenectomized at diagnosis or during follow-up and, consequently, spleen specimens were available for histological examination in all cases. The b...

Smashing the Stack with Hydra: The Many Heads of Advanced Polymorphic Shellcode

Recent work on the analysis of polymorphic shellcode engines suggests that modern obfuscation methods would soon eliminate the usefulness of signature-based network intrusion detection methods [36] and supports growing views that the new generation of shellcode cannot be accurately and efficiently represented by the string signatures which current IDS and AV scanners rely upon. In this paper, w...

The Girl with a Future

About the same lime, the elder daughter Sa lly, a high school se nior, is viewing a short motion pi<:ture, "Rewurd Unlimited," starring Dorothy McGuire as Cadet Nurse Pegs}' Ada ms, at the Main Street movie theater. After the show the gang stops at the drugstore to hash over the latest gossip under a compelling poster above the soda fountain which proclaims: " He a Cadet Nu rse-The Gi rl with a...

MULTIPLIER ANALYSIS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF MANY PRODUCERS AND MANY CONSUMERS OF THE SAM FOR THE IRANIAN ECONOMY

The girl with the iron tattoo.

We describe a young woman with profound anemia whose serum iron studies were incongruous with what we expected from iron deficiency anemia. Her high serum iron was not fully explainable until we examined the patient and noticed a large black tattoo on her left flank area. Apparently iron oxide in the ink used for the tattoo was absorbed transcutaneously and led to high serum iron in the face of...