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Clearly, search engines needed to be more intuitive, to rank quality over quantity. But how can a computer program understand what we think of as the good stuff? To Page and Brin this was more than an academic puzzler. Multiply the man-hours corporations spend on online research by the increasing chaos of the Web and you have millions of dollars leaking out of the economy. "If we deal with that better," says Page, "we're changing the world...
...remaining questions go well beyond pesky details, though there is no end of those, to basics that can be decided only in the Oval Office. Among them: Just what should the basic benefit package include? The answer will go far to clear up another puzzler: How much is the whole plan likely to cost? Whatever the figure, how will that cost be paid -- whose taxes should be raised how much? "These are all tough ones, and there are trade-offs with each, none of which are easy," says Magaziner...
John Bartholomew Tucker wins the prize for the year's best mystery title: He's Dead -- She's Dead: Details at Eleven (St. Martin's Press; 312 pages; $17.95). The puzzler that follows is just as piquant. Jim Sasser, onetime TV commentator and now a writer of thrillers, stops by the network to see an old Vietnam war buddy. He is not a happy camper. Cost cutting is under way, firings are the order of the day, and a terrorist is threatening to do some eliminating of his own. For a lark, Sasser decides to probe, just...
Since the dollar is strong and products are such bargains abroad, why are many imports still so costly at home? That is the puzzler for American shoppers who had hoped that their high-flying currency would provide hometown bargains on luxury products ranging from cashmere sweaters to Dunhill gold cigarette lighters...
...world premiere of Vendetta, created for Makarova by Choreographer Lorca Massine, gave her the chance to put on a gypsy costume and flirt and shimmy with Dowell, Bujones and Ganio, amid much running about by the corps. What was supposed to have been a crowd-pleaser proved chiefly a puzzler...