Word: popularization
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Bing-Twitter search also allows users to separate the most popular embedded links from the tweets that surround them, allowing people to understand the source of a conversation without having to endure the din surrounding it. Bing-Twitter also expands a tweet's bit url and shows users the real domain, creating greater transparency before you click. In short, Bing makes Twitter make sense.(See pictures from inside Google's headquarters...
...Reign of Edward III. Literature scholars have long debated whether the play was written by Shakespeare - some bits are incredibly Bard-like, but others don't resemble his style at all. The verdict, according to one expert: the play is likely a collaboration between Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd, another popular playwright of his time. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Histories...
...Chair Kevin M. Mee ’10 and Vice-Chair James A. McFadden ’10 confirmed in interviews with The Crimson that the Nov. 19 pep rally would not feature a large performance as it did last year, when Girl Talk, a popular remix artist, took the stage—only to be prematurely forced off when a raucous crowd pushed against the stage, creating a safety hazard...
...Qing is hardly the sort of writer whom China wanted to be given a platform at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest annual event of its kind. China was the fair's guest of honor this year, and the country's official representatives wanted to showcase a few young, popular novelists. Dai, 68, is a journalist and author of serious works on the environment in China and social affairs like women's rights. Thanks to her vocal criticism of the Three Gorges Dam, Dai can no longer find a publisher in mainland China. Her ideas on social issues in China...
...himself - easing out the 85-year-old tyrant without resorting to bad behavior himself - is far harder than Mugabe's goal of staying in power by whatever means necessary. Because of this, Tsvangirai can often seem like he is stumbling in comparison. For example, when he says that popular support equals political dominance, he sounds like he's not facing up to reality - talking about the way things should be in Zimbabwe rather than what they are. Power in the country comes from guns and soldiers, as Mugabe demonstrated when he unleashed his security forces on MDC supporters after...