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...brand-new decade, and Microsoft is about to leapfrog Apple - and every other player in the cell-phone world - with the launch of Windows Phone 7 (WP7). (Get the latest gadget news and reviews on Techland...
...come from a long line of people who don't care about our long line of people. Whenever I asked my grandparents where their parents were from, they'd all launch into the same speech about how Poland and Russia switched borders a lot. The only thing I got from that speech was that people do not want to admit they're Polish. Also, that making a big deal about your genealogy isn't for Jews; it's for Wasps and Southerners and Democrats and other groups whose past is brighter than their future...
...British chain is believed to be the first to launch such a program. However, given the proclivity of Americans for divorce - recent statistics put the U.S. divorce rate at about 3.5 per 1,000 people, or roughly half the marriage rate - it may only be a matter of time before the concept makes the jump across the pond. Indeed, divorce has become a big industry around the world, thanks in part to such high-profile celebrity splits like Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston and Heather Mills and Paul McCartney. "Celebrate-don't-commiserate" products like greeting cards, sponge cakes...
...those jumps - the most difficult that any female competitor performs - in a single program at any competition. (She also landed a triple Axel in the short program on Tuesday.) Close to the end of her program, however, she caught her heel on the ice and couldn't launch into her second-to-last jump, a triple toe loop, losing precious points...
Making Marjah Count A town of 60,000 souls, Marjah is ringed by poppy fields that are watered by irrigation canals built in the 1950s and '60s by U.S. engineers. McChrystal chose this location to launch the reconquest of Afghanistan because it is the western end of a population belt that extends from central Helmand province through Kandahar province - both infested with the Taliban. McChrystal has set out to secure that belt, starting in Marjah, then moving to Lashkar Gah, Kandahar city and finally Spin Boldak. "It's where we hadn't been, it's where the enemy still...