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...make calculations. At one stage, I ask him to figure out how tall the 8 billion Web pages that Google once said it indexes would be if they were stacked pieces of paper. He quickly comes up with an answer, then keeps crunching numbers in his head as we discuss other issues. Finally, after recalculating his estimate for paper width, he blurts out: "500 miles." I ask Brin whether, as a kid, he used to play with numbers, adding digits, say, in the phone book. "No," he says. "That would be crazy...
...development. Mayer greets them at her desk, which is cluttered with solar-powered bobble heads and other Japanese toys. Depending on the problem, she may serve as editor, designer, coder or friend. At a session a few weeks ago, a procession of earnest young men and women arrived to discuss projects they hoped would win her approval and, eventually, Brin's and Page's. Some were whimsical. (A designer was creating an interface so that Google users searching Christmas would see a candy-cane border around the results.) Others were all business. (A female engineer took in test results that...
...given how many Americans are already taking them, they are probably long overdue. The FDA will also weigh a unanimous recommendation by the panel to make potential risks to the heart more apparent in the patient guides given out by pharmacies. That topic will doubtless come up for discussion next month when a pediatric advisary panel meets to discuss ADHD drugs...
...Department of Homeland Security informed him in August 2004 that his visa had been revoked, Eck said. Ramadan could not travel to the U.S. for the conference, though he did participate via live video stream from Canada. The Homeland Security Department “doesn’t discuss the basis for its recommendations to the State Department—whether for or against granting an individual an immigration benefit,” Homeland Security spokeswoman Jamie E. Zuieback wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday. She declined to comment on the lawsuit, but added...
...After then-Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles resigned in 2002, Summers appointed the search committee members unconstrained by Faculty nominations. Nor did that committee as a whole discuss specific candidates, only offering general feedback on the qualities it looked for in a dean...