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...biggest announcement in a weeklong speed blitz for Google. In a Feb. 9 Op-Ed in the Washington Post, Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt called for faster Internet connections as a way of narrowing America's "innovation deficit." And on Feb. 11, Google launched a Speed Dashboard as part of YouTube, designed to let users compare the performance of their Internet connections to those of other providers in their neighborhood and around the world. Think your neighbors have faster Internet than you? Now you can confirm your suspicions and weigh up whether it's worth it to switch providers...
...autopsy, released by Wayne County medical examiner Carl Schmidt, showed that Abdullah was shot a total of 20 times, incurring 21 wounds. He had died during a raid by federal law-enforcement agents on a warehouse in Dearborn, a 20-minute drive southwest of downtown Detroit. And while federal authorities had claimed after the raid that Abdullah opened fire after refusing to surrender his weapon, Schmidt said Monday that when medical-examiner-office investigators found Abdullah's body inside a semitrailer, the imam's hands were cuffed behind his back. "I don't recall police being involved in a case...
Correction: The original version of the story had Wayne County medical examiner Carl Schmidt saying the imam's hands were cuffed behind his back at the time of the shooting. The story clarifies that what Schmidt said was that at the time the imam's body was found, his hands were cuffed...
Adding to the picture are the revelations voiced by Schmidt on 60 Minutes - in particular, her habitual shading of the truth in ways that exposed the campaign to extreme political vulnerability. "You know, it [was] the equivalent of saying down is up and up is down," Schmidt told Anderson Cooper on the program. "[She routinely said things] that were provably, demonstrably untrue...
When O'Reilly asked Palin for comment about Game Change, she deemed our reporting "gossipy anonymous accusations," declared Schmidt's characterizations of her false and dismissed the book as irrelevant. "The rest of America doesn't care about that kind of crap," she said...