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...precisely the web page that they always wanted but could never find. When Sergey Brin and Larry Page created Google, this was their way of showing us just how good they could be - like two kids bouncing into their parent?s den to show off a new magic trick...
...button doesn't say ?Do you feel lucky?? (too Clint Eastwood) or ?You wanna get lucky?? (too seedy) also says something about the duo who met and perfected their invention as Stanford grad students. They chose optimistic, feel-good language - vague and disarming at first blush, but when the trick works, it?s as if those two kids in the den have just pulled off Houdini?s escape from a water torture cell...
There is speculation, which WADA won't deny, that the organization will pull the same trick in Athens with a test for synthetic human growth hormone (HGH), which stimulates muscle and bone growth. It's popular among competitors because unlike easily detected steroids, excess HGH levels are difficult to distinguish from normally circulating levels. And WADA is also reserving the right to nab dopers after the fact--the I.O.C. will keep the samples from Athens and subject them to detection methods WADA may deploy over the next few months...
...simple trick of calling one thing something else is suddenly enriching the few, bamboozling the many and threatening the Western world's belief in the sanctity of the label. At a Times Square movie palace last week, patrons who shelled out $10 each to see a new Tom Cruise movie, only to get David Hasselhoff as the star instead, angrily rushed the box office to demand full refunds. The studio admitted saving millions with the celluloid bait-and-switch but denied shortchanging customers. "Hey, guy," noted a senior executive, "Tom and Dave are both adult male Americans with all their...
...trick of dread movies is to take ordinary events and invest them with the unbeatable combination of must-see and can't-bear-to-look. Go on, take a stroll in the woods (in Shyamalan's The Village) when you've been told that monsters lurk there. Or a dip in the ocean (in the low-budget thriller Open Water) when you're left stranded as shark bait. Try to wash out that feeling of dread by shampooing your hair (in the Japanese spookathon Ju-on: The Grudge). You begin to rub in the shampoo--and for a moment...