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...these such freshmen was alpine skier Catherine Sheils who followed up her 18th-place finish in last weekend’s giant slalom with another strong performance. This one coming in the slalom, where Shiels took 22nd in both the first and second runs of the event. The freshman didn’t match the promise she showed in last weekend’s exhibition, where she placed third out of the collegiate field, but her performance was the strongest individual result the team had outside of the women’s nordic team...
There was no lack of, well, buzz about Google's new Buzz social-media platform last week, but more important were a series of moves that suggest the search giant is ready to take a tentative step toward fixing one of its longest-held gripes: the speed of Internet connections...
...August the social-networking giant started rolling out the ability to send real-life gifts by going to the same digital wall on which a member would jot a note to a friend. (First-time users have to input credit- or debit-card info to obtain Facebook credits. Think of them as Chuck E. Cheese tokens for a digital generation.) Once the purchase is complete, the recipient gets a notification on her wall to show off to all her friends, and if she provides her address to the third-party vendor, the gift shows up on her doorstep...
...while we’re on the subject of snow, some people at Penn decided to make a giant snowball to block a door, although it’s unclear if the motive was to do something fun on a really snowy day or to create a legitimate barricade from the dangers that lurk outside on that campus. Who knows? Maybe it was both...
...host the Games - the resort doesn't really need the exposure. But once Vancouver won the Games, Whistler essentially had to rent itself out to the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) to provide the slopes for the men's and women's alpine skiing events, including the downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super G and the super combined. The contract calls for VANOC to reimburse Whistler for skier days lost to the Games. "VANOC's done a good job," says Jensen. "They're making us whole...