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...Gates built or bought all manner of things to conquer the Net, but few managed to be anything more than also-rans in the innovation game. In 1995, he launched a gated online service, MSN; a Web-based email client, Hotmail was purchased in 1997; a search engine, MSN Search, launched in 1998 using a third-party product as its core; a chat client, Messenger, was released in 1999; and last year it bought an online advertising platform, aQuantive and became a significant, though minority investor, in social network Facebook...
...battle is being joined in a storied and auspicious place. Arghandab, just 10 miles northwest of Kandahar, is famous for its lush vineyards and pomegranate orchards. It is also a key symbol for the insurgency. Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979, but were never fully able to conquer the Arghandab district, which remained an outpost of mujahedin defiance. Its shady groves, raisin-drying barns and deep irrigation canals provide excellent cover for fighters. Kandahar residents worry that the militants could use the Arghandab district as a base for an attack on the city itself, in an attempt to regain their...
...plan to keep a bit of her alive by culturing her liver cells. His obsessive love of his wife and his science blind him to the strangeness of what he's doing. But the mitochondria see a perfect opportunity and rejoice. They will harness his expertise in biotechnology to conquer the world - and they aren't scrupulous about how they try to do so. The second half of the novel oozes with enough violence and sexual perversity to make Caligula blush...
...speech that touched only tangentially on the stories she has woven in her books, Rowling called on members of the Class of 2008 to use their capacity to empathize and their experiences of failure to conquer apathy...
...Like many pro athletes, MMA fighters like to think of themselves as performers at heart, as skilled at marketing as they are at their athletic moves. "Watch the Colossus conquer Kimbo," Thompson says. "It's going to be a great night for whole family." Then again, if too many families watch the sport, CBS could find itself the one getting beaten...