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...individuals' interests, mostly through their search history--the clickstream. Findory, a Seattle-based news-search site launched in January 2004, provides access to news stories and blogs. As you start searching for certain types of stories, the site gradually learns about your preferences, and the home page evolves to mirror your interests. Google includes a similar feature in its most recent desktop search tool, called Sidebar, which was released last week. The technology makes some consumers uneasy: How much do you want your computer to know about...
...several languages and span the socio-economic spectrum. They can be undocumented immigrants or descendents of families that were on American soil before founding of the republic. Their diversity binds them to each other and to all other Americans. The dreams of the old and new immigrants overlap and mirror each other, offering up myriad reflections of a mutually imagined America. When Christopher Columbus set foot on the shores of the New World, he described the natives as "young...well made with fine shapes and faces...Some paint themselves with black...others with white, others with red, and others with...
...around 80. We have had a good marriage for more than 50 years and have six healthy, well-educated children. We have contributed equally to our assets and have half in my name, half in his. Our estate (worth about $3 million) is in revocable living trusts that are mirror images of each other. In mine, my husband is the successor trustee, and our children are beneficiaries. He thus has no restrictions on how he uses the principal. How can I be sure that our children will inherit our estate if he should remarry? I think he may, which...
When first erected, Oak Ridge was the fourth largest telescope in the world, with a mirror five feet in diameter. Today, most telescope mirrors have grown to more than 30 feet in diameter...
...Grimm, it was Gilliam who nearly cracked up, but the strain doesn't show onscreen. The film is a colorful ragbag of fairy-tale tropes, with crones peddling apples, a girl in a red riding hood running into a wolf and a vain queen at her magic mirror. Gilliam, who loathes the "juvenile fantasy" of movie heroism, makes the brothers pleasant but oafish; Headey, in a gorgeous, starmaking turn, is the real hero as the fearless witch Angelika. The movie's sense of humor is high-low in the Python style. It alternates the drollery of Jonathan Pryce's French...