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...should have known that Google would get it right. The company is among the few shining stars in an industry littered with flameouts. Before Google came along in 1998 with its breakthrough search engine, trying to search for stuff on the Web was an exercise in information overload. Google's innovation was an algorithm (afancy comp-sci term for a set of rules) that matched search terms with the most relevant sites that get most links from the highest quality Web pages. Think of it as searching by dint of popular demand...
...told you they’re a fire hazard?” asked Lt. Frank Tealy. He thinks for a minute. “Sometimes they can overload the electrical circuit. Maybe that’s it. Offhand I don’t think it’s a violation of the fire code,” he said. A second inspector, Deputy Chief of Fire Prevention Lester Bokuniewicz, also said that if microwaves weren’t allowed in dorm rooms, that was news...
...Will Beuscher, the pink-shirted waiter, who is ponytailed and wizened and has a masters in education. The lamb appetizer ($9), served with hen of the woods mushrooms and red khuri squash puree, melted off the fork, cooked perfectly pink in the middle. Its only fault really was the overload of three slices where one would have whet the appetite sufficiently. Maws is good on side-of-the-plate gems. He serves hen of the woods mushrooms and watermelon radishes on the side of the pan-roasted skate wing ($19) and vegetables are spring-like even in late September...
...letter encouraged students not to overload themselves by doing “two major extracurricular activities simultaneously...
There is, of course, the danger of trying too hard. Cautions author Cheri Register: "Parents shouldn't make a fetish out of the whole thing. Some people overload on cultural traditions without really knowing what they're about." The trick, the experts say, is to expose kids to their birth culture while keeping in mind that interests may change as the children grow. Andrew James Marco Nelson, 15, and dad Jim went to Peru last year for Andrew's first visit to his birth country. "It was amazing," he says. "I loved the colorful art everywhere, and I liked seeing...