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...hard drive from the University of Oklahoma (Moussaoui sometimes sent e-mails from computers there, but rather than just his e-mails, the entire student-union hard drive was delivered), and 13 hard drives from other locations. It's just a fraction of what defense lawyers will have to sift through by the time the trial starts next fall...
...make them influential sites for search engines. Using a technique called “googlebombing,” concerted bloggers have successfully elevated chosen websites to the top of the Google search results page for chosen search words. In a world that relies on search engines so heavily to sift through information, this is power indeed...
...Somewhere in Feng Xiaogang's new film there's a course in contemporary Sino-U.S. relations, and students can sift through the plot to try to figure out who's laughing at whom, who's leading whom, who's doing what to whom?and why. And the very making of the movie raises a host of questions: Has Feng taken money from Columbia Pictures to make his film but stuck two fingers up at the U.S.? Or is he lampooning the circus that Beijing has become? Let the academics decide...
...part of what he describes as his “learning process,” Hyman observed Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzimmons ’67 and his colleagues sift through applications for several hours last week...
...best accommodate these "multichannel shoppers" is one of the more pressing questions for retailers as they sift through their receipts and data on consumer behavior for the crucial holiday shopping season and make plans for the future. In 2001, amid war and recession, discounters with a strong Web operation fared well as bargain-hungry and increasingly Web-savvy shoppers chose to click site to site rather than trudge store to store to compare prices. But the retailers who did best--and will do so in the year ahead--are the ones who make their online and in-store and catalog...