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...Including video in search results, especially on the main home page, will probably be the most popular aspect of Google's big upgrade. Fans of Internet video can now fire up Google's powerful algorithms directly from the search box to find videos, including those not hosted by YouTube or Google Video. Results from independent video sites like Metacafe and dailymotion will appear as thumbnail images. From there, viewers can click on those to get to the host sites, while YouTube and Google-owned videos can be played directly from the main search results page...
...popular appetite for forensic stories is seen not just in novels and on TV but in a new CSI exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. Across the country more universities are adding forensics classes to their criminology programs. In addition to the proposed TSU facility, Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers and Chico State in California are planning their own outdoor criminology labs...
These grumblers ignore the profound influence that Blair had over Bush. Most notably, he pressured Bush to act on global warming, and despite popular belief, Bush indeed changed his stance. In 2001, Bush withdrew the U.S. from the Kyoto treaty and then remained quiet on climate change for years. In contrast, The Observer reported this past January that a month after speaking with Blair about climate change, Bush announced his plan to cut U.S. consumption of oil by 20 percent in 10 years in his State of the Union. Blair, because of his close relationship with the President, was able...
...public routinely marvels over leaders who refuse to bow to conventional wisdom. Critics claim such "stubbornness" is the tragic flaw of a popular leader, but in fact, such fortitude is the welcome sign of a true leader. Public opinion may change on a whim—it faces no consequences—but a leader’s decisions affect an entire country. That leader is stubborn when he refuses to change a failed policy, but he is spineless when he changes his personal beliefs to curry favor with the public...
...early books included coarse stereotypes, and Hergé has been accused of racism in Tintin in Congo (although this book is particularly popular in Africa). Hergé was later arrested for being a wartime collaborator as he continued to draw cartoons for newspapers that were controlled by the Nazi occupiers during World War II. He spent a night in prison, but his file was eventually closed without legal action. But rumors and insinuations followed him for the rest of his life, and he had frequent bouts of depression...