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...will Google's re-tooling make us even more reliant on the world's master of search? "Our goal is not just to get people to spend more time on Google; it's for them to be able to accomplish more with Google," Brin says of the search phenomenon he helped create in 1996 as a grad school research project. "We actually want them to get more tasks done faster...
Russia's energy general is suave and arrogant, ironic and pragmatic, English-speaking and groomed, aggressive and compliant. Medvedev supervises Gazprom's exports, brushing off allegations of Gazprom being Russia's "pipeline troops," poised to accomplish with energy what the U.S.S.R. used to do with tanks. "There is no politics in our relations with other countries. Just business," he says. And business is booming. Russia is energy rich. Its oil and gas reserves account for more than 20% of its $1 trillion economy...
...University also agreed to meet with students and other community members to access AlliedBarton’s wages and benefits for Harvard workers.But some of the students expressed regret about not being able to accomplish more from their protest...
...Others accentuate the positive, admitting that the extension will allow them to accomplish projects that would have otherwise been dropped, or handed off to incoming troops overwhelmed by the challenge of adapting to the new terrain. As the 10th Mountain prepares to leave Afghanistan at the end of May, Colonel Howard looks back on what he was able to achieve during the period of the extension: A program training Afghan police that has given the provinces of Kunar and Nuristan a more reliable police force; a better relationship with locals forged in regular security meetings with tribal elders...
...Polk is proud of what he has managed to accomplish during his time in Naray. It's a feeling that comes out in his e-mails home, and the way he talks about the tribal elders he has befriended. He's looking forward to the day that he can see a resident of Naray use a mobile phone, turn on a light or drive a paved road to the next district - all projects he and his colleagues initiated during their time here. But those achievements will not be the measure of his success. "We've done a lot of great...