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Some people melt over wafer-thin notebook PCs. Others get finger twitches thinking about their next death match in Quake III. But what really brings out the techno-geek in me is a killer search engine that finds just what I'm looking for, and fast. That's why Google has made it to the top of my bookmark file. The engine was developed by two Stanford Ph.D. students and named after the mathematical term googol, which stands for 10[100th power]. The great thing about Google is that it works...
...think it's fair to say that [Faculty members] of color are stretched very thin," Dingman says...
According to Eck, under Coolidge's successor, Elliot Perkins, "little tea-sandwiches of thin-sliced cucumbers were served." In Perkins' day, Eck says, students came in small groups and Co-Master Mary Perkins poured tea in the living room...
...Police searched for three males who exposed themselves and yelled obscenities, near the Loeb Drama Center. One male was described as heavy-set, 17 years of age, with a gray puffy jacket, and knit blue hat; another was described as 17 years old, with a thin build, a thin pale face, dark haired, wearing olive drab jacket and baggy pants...
...represent nearly 50% of all Web traffic--but it also has ambitious plans to merge its massive database of consumer surfing habits with off-line data culled from catalog purchases. That would enable it to match what had been anonymous mouse clicks to real names and addresses--shredding whatever thin veil of privacy still hangs over cyberspace...