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...departure from its preference for the homegrown variety, and potentially a huge windfall for Sun, since Google needs ranches full of them. The companies may also work together to ?promote and enhance? Sun technologies, like the Java Runtime Environment and the OpenOffice.org productivity suite. There lies the tantalizing bait. OpenOffice is Sun?s weak rebuttal to Microsoft?s dominant suite of MicrosoftOffice products. If Google develops a killer line of web-based desktop products for Sun computers, Microsoft could be on the ropes...
...Bayou LaBranche, a green, glassy waterway some seven miles west of New Orleans, it's alligator-hunting season, and trappers have strung hunks of raw chicken on heavy hooks to dangle over the water. An 8-ft. gator leaps out of the dark waters to snatch the bait; a great egret flaps away from the commotion...
...squid, and the Japanese found the squid by following the whales off the Ogasawara islands, about 1,000 km south of Tokyo. Starting in 2002, the team searched for squid in the area for around two weeks every year, lowering into the waters a digital camera and weighted hooks baited with common squid and mashed shrimp. Depth mattered: the giant squid were believed to live about 1,000 m down. "At that point, our squid-watching turned unmistakably into squid-hunting," says Kubodera. No squid took the bait until Sept. 30, 2004, when an 8-m giant with a taste...
Friday, Oct. 7. “Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.” Barbara Ehrenreich, who lived the life of a low-wage worker in “Nickel and Dimed,” discusses her newest book, an exploration of the white-collar world of career coaching and networking events. 7 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church...
...against the seemingly unassailable nominee, Senate Democrats are trying to turn Roberts' perfectionism against him. Frustrated by the Bush administration's unwillingness to provide documents they think might show Roberts is a radical, Democrats are hoping they can tempt him to answer controversial questions by dangling their votes as bait. Maybe, the Democrats hope, he's just enough of a perfectionist that he won't be satisfied with a bare majority for his confirmation-maybe his pride will kick in and he'll be tempted to try and get at least the 96 votes that Clinton-appointee Ruth Bader Ginsburg...