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...those three elements together - social networks, live searching and link-sharing - and you have a cocktail that poses what may amount to the most interesting alternative to Google's near monopoly in searching. At its heart, Google's system is built around the slow, anonymous accumulation of authority: pages rise to the top of Google's search results according to, in part, how many links point to them, which tends to favor older pages that have had time to build an audience. That's a fantastic solution for finding high-quality needles in the immense, spam-plagued haystack that...
What's more, for those who have kept their jobs in the financial-services industry, the recession hasn't dented their paychecks either. While it appears that top salaries on Wall Street have dropped, on average, wages in the industry have continued to rise, even in the past year and a half. Weekly wages for those who perform financial activities, according to the BLS, have risen 1.7% since the end of 2007, compared with a jump of just 0.7% for all workers in the same time...
...collectibles, Cosby later channeled his energies into playing basketball and maintaining his ’95 BMW.“He was very proud of this car,” his mother recalled.Cosby said that she had no idea why her son, who lives with her in a high rise apartment building in Cambridge, was in Harvard Square the day of his death. Cosby also leaves behind his sister, Shenita, who flew in from Atlanta upon hearing the news, and his longtime girlfriend whom he met in college.“He was a good, young person...
...pictures of the rise and fall of the Shah of Iran...
...stuck on a splintering glacier makes for a gripping visual, but a new report says there are millions of climate-change victims we don't see - and many look just like us. The Global Humanitarian Forum paints a grim portrait of the human toll inflicted by Earth's gradual rise in temperature: 26 million people displaced, $125 billion in annual economic losses and more than 300,000 yearly deaths, as climate change speeds desertification and magnifies scourges from malnutrition to flooding. "We can no longer hold back from speaking out on the silent suffering of millions worldwide," writes the group...