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Bobby Fischer is back in Iceland, and that is as it should be. Fischer put Iceland on the map for the first time since the Vikings happened by. And Iceland put Fischer on the map, providing the venue for his greatest triumph, the 1972 world chess championship. That was before he fell off a psychic cliff...
...mountains. The people here are very hospitable," says Muammer Al-Shamiry of Sana'a University, who regularly visits Al-Hajjarah. Hikes can be a few kilometers to over 100 km, and last from a few hours to a week. It's hard to get hold of a good map, so be sure to take a local guide. www.yementourism.com
...answer. Google's new service, which has been available to U.S.consumers for a year, presents users with two search boxes: what and where. The results are drawn from the 2 million business listings held by Yell.com, the online version of the U.K.'s Yellow Pages, and augmented with detailed maps showing the precise location of the desired establishments. Follow a link and Google Local will even draw the route for you. Why would Yell, whose own site offers similar services, sell info to a competitor? "It's a benefit to the advertisers who pay us money," says Yell spokesman John...
...expedition members will sketch the area, creating guides to assist future climbers and hikers. They will include locations of mountains, ridges, glaciers, and other features, but will not draw up a formal map...
...care of that. Not only is it super fast (you're already getting results when you type in the first few letters of your search term), but it looks through absolutely everything: email messages, contacts, the information attached to digital photos, even a page you scanned in or a map you downloaded from the web. As an encore, Spotlight guesses which file you're most likely to want, based on how often the search term crops up in it and how recently you looked at it, and offers that at the top of the list...