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...here's a wacky thought: Maybe Microsoft is just collateral damage in this war. Maybe the real competitor to Google is Apple! Launching its Chrome OS in the second half of 2010 may be simply a bid by Google to keep the Web a viable, robust place - even as users (especially Apple users) are starting to be enticed away from it. (See Google Earth's historical photos...
...trigger storms, droughts and other weather disturbances around the planet, drying out normally wet areas and flooding dry parts. But there is a positive effect to El Niño: it tends to reduce the number of hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean. El Niños produce stronger vertical wind shear - the difference in wind speed and direction over a short distance - in the Atlantic, which inhibits the production of hurricanes...
...coach recounted a story from the start of her coaching career, where she read about various basketball drills in her office and then directed practice, running the newly learned drills as if she had known them for years.“It’s not Xs and Os, it’s psychology,” Delaney-Smith explained. “I was fooling a lot of people early.” Johnson’s film tracks Delaney-Smith’s career from her beginnings as the head coach at Westwood (Mass.) High School...
...caf, during a recent Lions Club breakfast meeting. Bush answered a few questions and shook some hands while Laura sipped coffee. Today, Ronnie (Perch) Smith, a road builder and horsebreaker, is finishing a plate of the Coffee Station's signature Bush Wings--chicken breasts stuffed with cheese and jalapeos, wrapped in bacon and fried--which enjoy broad bipartisan support. Smith doesn't talk politics much, although in the summer of 2005, he says, he painted SHEEHAN on the rump of his horse and rode it past Peace House...
...tell if Raúl chose Rodriguez with a proactive U.S.-Cuba mission in mind or simply to have a professional but nondescript bureaucrat warm the Foreign Minster's seat. Raúl already consults a small core of foreign policy veterans on U.S. policy, including Jorge Bolaños, Cuba's de facto ambassador in Washington, and Fernando Remírez de Estenoz, one of Cuba's most respected diplomats and the foreign relations point man inside the Cuban Communist Party's all-powerful Central Committee. Havanologists will be watching closely to see if Rodriguez becomes part of that...