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...most popular features of its competitors. Like Firefox's "awesome bar," Chrome's search blank keeps track of keywords in a user's previous visit, allowing one to type in, say, "baseball" and pull up any Web pages he'd visited recently that pertain to that sport. Also like Firefox, Chrome supports tabs as a way to open and keep track of multiple windows, though Chrome puts the tabs above the search blank rather than below it. There's also a privacy function - which bloggers have dubbed the "porn mode" - that allows users to privately visit sites without Google...
...More attractive to ADUG, perhaps: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), including Abu Dhabi, are eager to raise their sporting profile, says Simon Chadwick, a professor of sport business strategy and marketing at Coventry Business School. Abu Dhabi will host its first ever Formula One motor race next year, and Dubai even considered bidding to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Snapping up Manchester City, then, is another way of "announcing your presence to the world," Chadwick says, of "establishing relationships with key decision makers in football, demonstrating they have the confidence and expertise and have the money to spend." ADUG...
...little Wasilla. And those who can talk, do. All weekend they had the decency not to pretend that they didn't know the governor's eldest daughter was pregnant. But they also expected decency in return, that I wouldn't be the kind of person to make sport out of a young girl's slip...
...game would be totally lost," says Richard Becht, an official with the NRL's New Zealand Warriors. "I guess we'd always have enough numbers, but the competition would become a throwback. In the power factor, in the entertainment factor, it would be markedly inferior." But nothing about sport is as simple as it looks. In New Zealand, where rugby is the national passion, the rise in Polynesian participation appears to be at least one reason for the flight from the game of large numbers of comparatively slight boys, to the point where more New Zealanders now play soccer than...
...SELIG, commissioner of Major League Baseball, insisting that the sport's new instant-replay system--which took effect on Aug. 28--will not be used for purposes other than to review disputed home runs...