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...company’s Native Client Security Contest, which begins today, challenges hackers to find weak points in its Native Client open source research technology. Glitches that impress the judging panel--including Harvard Computer Science Professor Greg Morrisett--will win cash in powers of two, with a top prize...
Advertising copywriter Greg Rutter has compiled everything great about the Internet and put that on one Web page. Youshouldhaveseenthis.com is a list of 99 videos and websites that any self-respecting Internet addict needs to see - and probably already...
...that belonged to hitters, who just happened to be growing cartoonishly large and hitting baseballs into parts of ballparks where no baseballs had gone before. It was a freak show and baseball loved it. It was the first season in history in which four players hit 50 home runs. Greg Vaughn and Ken Griffey Jr., half of the 50-plus bombers that year, were dwarfed in size, production and attention by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Both McGwire, with 70 home runs, and Sosa, with 66, blew away the record 61 home runs of Roger Maris that had stood...
...flattening of Barack Obama's complex racial background shouldn't have been surprising. Many multiracial historical figures in the U.S. have been reduced (or have reduced themselves) to a single aspect of their racial identities: Booker T. Washington, Tina Turner, and Greg Louganis are three examples. This phenomenon isn't entirely pernicious; it is at least partly rooted in our concern that growing up with a fractured identity is hard on kids. The psychologist J.D. Teicher summarized this view in a 1968 paper: "Although the burden of the Negro child is recognized as a heavy one, that of the Negro...
...spending bankers, mainstays of the luxury-hotel business. So far, Shangri-La is avoiding widespread discounting of room rates to protect its image. "If you look at all the top brands in the world at the high end - the Louis Vuittons, the Rolls-Royces - they never discount," says Greg Dogan, Shangri-La's chief operating officer. Instead, Shangri-La is targeting new customers, including corporations that might benefit from government stimulus packages, like construction companies, or are recession-resistant, like pharmaceutical outfits. "We have to knock on a few more doors," Rao says...