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...attempt at mapping the invisible Web. It details how current search technology works or, more to the point, why it often doesn't: search engines are expensive and cumbersome to maintain, often taking four to six weeks to revisit and reindex a website. Even then they'll probably not burrow beyond the first level or two of data, especially if they're in a large corporate or academic site. And a crawler is often stymied by complicated offerings like movies, sound files, images or Microsoft Word documents. Price's remedy: "Learn where to find these invisible resources and build your...
...Aurora Gold, which had won rights to mine the area, to go about its business. Even critics of the mining company say its modern equipment would have produced a fraction of the mercury currently being dumped. Instead, the region is confronting a disaster of biblical proportions as illegal miners burrow into the muddy earth. The ore they bring up from the hundreds of tunnels snaking as far as 70 m under the surface contains minute amounts of gold, a few grams a ton. Their primitive processing techniques require large quantities of mercury to extract the precious metal. Los Angeles-based...
Bill and Hillary Clinton have launched their separate lives, both of them shadowed by the recent crop of scandal. He is in New York City, struggling to rise above his mistakes; she's in Washington, trying just as hard to burrow into her work and begin her future. What was supposed to be the triumphant start of a new career has turned into something altogether less appealing. To get a sense of how she's coping, TIME spent last Tuesday with Clinton as she went about her Senate business. She denies that the furor over pardons and gifts and pricey...
...used to be "in" tech stocks - now you're "exposed" to them. And as the tech sector, led by a Lehman Brothers downgrade of Cisco, continued to burrow deeper into its funk, the musty old Dow Jones is getting hot again...
...Burrow down below the megastar layer, down to the prole performers, and you'll hear the same views expressed in rhetoric that echoes old-time union firebranding. "There's enough money to pay everyone a fair wage in this economy," says Courtney Gebhart, a SAG strike captain who has had to scramble for good gigs. "But corporate greed is trying to kill the middle class. So what do you get? The teachers, the actors, the MTA in California. Everyone is on strike." Gebhart wants to locate the strike in the gut of, say, a wage slave who sees his company...