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...Speed Up Your Surfing Google's experimental Web accelerator is a free program that helps broadband browsers load sites more efficiently, so you waste less time waiting for pages to load. The software works by routing your requests for certain Web pages through fast Google-managed machines, compressing online information before sending it to your computer, and by centrally storing copies of Web pages that are used often, to make them more quickly accessible. Like many of Google's services and downloads, the tool doesn't work on Macs, a source of much grief among those who favor Apple machines...
...argument that would win over those to whom some matters, like lampooning the Prophet or depicting Jesus as a woman, are literally unspeakable. But in a Continent with plenty of centuries-old minorities, as well as millions of Muslims who are now part of a volatile, Internet-speed global conversation between Islam and the West that can turn a cartoon into a casus belli, is there a better answer...
...hours before the most important race of his career, U.S. speed skater Chad Hedrick was a calamity. Thirteen years ago to this very day, his grandmother, Geraldine Hedrick-"my buddy"-died of brain cancer. The combination of grief, cabin fever- he arrived in Torino twelve days before the Games ("rolling around in bed takes it toll on you")-and the pressure of his first Olympic race drove Hedrick to tears. And into the stands, where friends and family tried to calm his down. "I kind of felt like a sissy," says Hedrick...
...meters in 6:14:68, just two-hundredths behind the Olympic record. "She gave me a little extra push today," Hedrick, a Houston native, says of Geraldine. "I could just feel it." One down, four to go: Hedrick, who is chasing Eric Heiden's record five speed skating gold medals, will next race on Wednesday, in the Team Pursuit, a new event for the Torino Games. In the pursuit, two countries, each with three skaters, race head-to-head in an eight-team tournament. The three teammates take turns "pulling," or leading, the team throughout eight laps (in long-track...
...Team U.S.A. is drawn primarily from Title IX-fueled colleges and is characterized by speed and playmaking finesse. But in the current pre-Olympic series, Canada won 8 of the first 9 against the Americans, raising doubts about the wisdom of chopping Granato and prompting Smith to experiment with Ruggiero at forward. In the series finale on New Year's Day in Winnipeg, however, Wendell scored twice in a 5-3 victory. Now the questions: Are the Canadians too old? Have they peaked too soon? Have the Americans lulled them into a false sense of security? "The Americans...