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...pull up any Web pages he'd visited recently that pertain to that sport. Also like Firefox, Chrome supports tabs as a way to open and keep track of multiple windows, though Chrome puts the tabs above the search blank rather than below it. There's also a privacy function - which bloggers have dubbed the "porn mode" - that allows users to privately visit sites without Google or their History files recording the visits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google Enters the Browser Wars | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...Maliki has largely shunned the groups and lately taken an even harder line against them. Iraqi security forces have arrested multiple Awakening leaders and disbanded some of the bands. For a time joint patrols and checkpoints involving both Iraqi security forces and Awakening fighters allowed the groups to function essentially as paramilitaries alongside the Iraqi army and police. But the growing strength of Iraqi security forces has led them to begin undertaking what would once have been joint operations on their own. Moreover, Maliki recently suggested that Awakening groups had outlived their usefulness, vowing to Shi'ite tribal leaders that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Days for Iraq's Awakening | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

...they are essentially bouncing though the air from one leg to another, says Daniel Lieberman, a professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University who studies how and why the human body looks and works as it does. What determines how fast people go is their stride length - a function of how long the legs are, how powerfully they push off into a stride and how far forward the body jumps - and their stride rate, which is how fast they can propel their legs forward. While great endurance runners, get their speed from long strides, sprinters get much of their speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Fast Can Humans Go? | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

...their system vulnerable to herpes infection. "Once sufficiently nourished to ensure for survival, oysters focus on development of sexual organs - creating sperm and ovaries mostly - and ignore their defense systems," explains Tristan Renault, the director of Ifremer's genetic and pathology laboratory. "Oysters are capable of only one function at once, especially in springtime. So if a threat is posed during this period of concentrated sexual development, they're very susceptible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Herpes Hits French Oyster Industry | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...guess it is. That's kind of the joke of it. Who are the last guys in the world that would function well in an action-movie-type situation? The answer is potheads. I've definitely spent large periods of my life where I've done absolutely nothing but smoke weed, so it was during those periods where we thought, If someone was trying to murder us, that would be pretty entertaining--until they killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Seth Rogen | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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