Word: flips
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...design, in which results appear in three columns across the page, also allows for longer previews of each site's content. But other search sites make better use of page real estate. SearchMe, which launched earlier this year, offers full-page snapshots in its results, through which you can flip like the album covers on iTunes. And the No. 4-ranked search engine, Ask, also uses a wider layout to display both images and sub-categories for refining one's search...
What advice would you give Brett Favre on his current retirement flip-flop? -Nathan Henneka, Salt Lake City
Favre, 38, is certainly not the first athlete to flip-flop on bidding farewell to his game. Pitcher Roger Clemens, the king of comebacks, has retired a total of three times. Lance Armstrong left cycling in 1996 to battle cancer and returned to win seven consecutive Tour de France titles. Other stars have re-emerged to save a struggling franchise, like Michael Jordan, who proclaimed his 1995 return to the Chicago Bulls after a failed bid at pro baseball with a two-word press release: "I'm back." The deathless Rocky franchise aside, the "sweet science" seems to specialize...
...statements were seen as a blunder at best and a flip-flop at worst...
Being accused of flip-flopping by the Republicans is routine; infuriating the faithful is risky business. Obama denies that he's sacrificing principle to appeal to moderates. "Don't assume that if I don't agree with you on something that it must be because I'm doing that politically," he told an audience in Powder Springs, Ga., on July 8. "I may just disagree with you." It's true that some of Obama's "shifts" have been more about a change in emphasis than in policy. On Iraq, for example, Obama has long said, "We have...