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...Brin and Page appear to be a good bet. They?d somehow managed to grow an internet juggernaut in plain sight while the rest of the dotcommers were selling off their Aeron chairs on eBay. Most of us were astonished to learn just how big and profitable the company had become when it unveiled its numbers last fall. Who knew that those proliferating ?sponsored links? could be a billion-dollar business, with fat margins to boot...
...Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, doesn't generally publicize threats unless it has solid evidence of an impending strike. When the Palestinian uprising began in 2000, Shin Bet initially tried to keep information about imminent attacks secret. But whenever it put up new checkpoints to thwart the terrorists, radio stations would report the traffic snarls that ensued, and the government would be forced to acknowledge the terrorism threat. The Israelis noticed that this often prompted bombers to put off their journey or to make cell-phone calls to their handlers for traffic information, sometimes enabling Shin Bet...
...record breakers.) "I don't think anyone will be competing in Athens with genetic enhancement," says Dr. H. Lee Sweeney, chairman of the department of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a consultant to WADA. "But I wouldn't be willing to make the same bet about Beijing...
...bet. In We Don't Live Here Anymore, Krause (it's Krau-zuh) plays Hank Evans, a writer navigating his way through a convulsing marriage. The new film features partner swapping, late-night screaming and a child who sleeps in his own dried urine because the mother (Laura Dern)--a woman with whom Evans has an affair--is so distracted by her gin and her suffering that she forgets to change the sheets...
...Sadrists have provoked the confrontation, the prevailing animosity towards the U.S. forces among ordinary Shiites will likely play to Moqtada's advantage in his political challenge to the Allawi government. Particularly with Sistani absent to restrain Sadr and other moderate Shiites questioning U.S. tactics, it's a safe bet that the U.S. - and its Iraqi prot?g?, Allawi - will be blamed for turning Najaf into a bloodbath...