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...Monday, that its servers crashed around 3 p.m. E.T. "Due to excessive load, our servers didn't return results. Please try your search again," the site read intermittently throughout the afternoon. But even when it was working, the results were fair, at best. Enter a keyword such as "mint" and the first result that comes up isn't the herb or flavor but the U.S. Mint. Type in "Obama," and one of the sub-categories Cuil suggests is "Hispanic-American Politicians". And Cuil lacks the special tabs for news, video, local and image results used by the leading sites...
...making a mint could be a struggle. The other big film musicals of this decade--Chicago, Dreamgirls and Hairspray--had casts of mostly young actors. The Mamma Mia! contingent is different, as will now be proved with a précis of the movie's plot (a knockoff of the 1968 comedy Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell) and a few actuarial stats...
...surrounding buildings in Baghdad's Sadr City. That was two months ago, at the height of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's military campaign in the fiercely hostile Sadr City district of Baghdad. Today, Jamila Market is teeming with life. Vendor after vendor hawks piles of watermelons, cabbages, tomatoes, mint leaves and other foods. Shops along the walls behind the market sit with doors swung open, their display windows inviting shoppers to buy suits, purses, shoes, and cosmetics...
...their letters. Then the writer must begin by describing the first time he saw Star Wars ("I was the first kid on my block to see it," "I saw it in utero," etc.). Often the writer's origin story segues into a tragedy of childhood abuse, in which his mint collection of figurines and plastic light sabers is wantonly disposed of by a female relative unaware of its estimated $3.5 million net worth...
...there has been a recent mushrooming of coin designs after decades in which currency from pennies to dollars remained virtually unchanged. Now, after delivering its 50 state quarters, the U.S. mint is producing its presidential dollar coins (it started in 2007 with George Washington, and is chronological, with four per year), to be followed by an equal number of ten-dollar first spouse coins...