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...Brin and Page appear to be a good bet. They?d somehow managed to grow an internet juggernaut in plain sight while the rest of the dotcommers were selling off their Aeron chairs on eBay. Most of us were astonished to learn just how big and profitable the company had become when it unveiled its numbers last fall. Who knew that those proliferating ?sponsored links? could be a billion-dollar business, with fat margins to boot...
...although the national conference was extended by a day to accommodate the delegation's efforts, Sadr was in no hurry to bring the matter to a close. His own reading of the political winds in Iraq plainly suggests that as long as he's inside Shiite Islam's holiest shrine surrounded by American troops, tanks and aircraft, he holds a clear political advantage. Although the latest pause in the military effort to dislodge Sadr and his men from the shrine may grate at the morale of the U.S. troops gearing up to do the job, Allawi may have had little...
...Greece for the Summer Games and are inspired to perform some physical feats of your own, you could get into shape by taking a hike. A trek up to the Byzantine monasteries of Meteora will earn you no medals, but the scenery alone is ample reward. Located on the plain of Thessaly about 350 km from Athens, this cluster of monolithic rocks became a religious center for the Greek Orthodox Church inthe 14th century, when monks seeking to get closer to God built a monastery on the summit of the Great Meteoron. For hundreds of years, the only...
Determined, I try again, getting it going for a good three hours while I cook, eat and clean after my dinner (plain pasta boiled with garlic and peanut butter spread over my four remaining meusli bars—mmm!). I manage in the process to go through not only every log in the hut but every stick, twig or leaf in a 10-meter area outside...
...sculptures, with the words: do you want a close encounter? Perhaps even more crucial than the lure of tourist dollars is the lifting of a town's sagging spirits. And it's taken an eccentric Englishman to show black and white Australia coexisting peacefully on a salt plain. "When you're totally starkers, you're basically all the same," says Finlayson. "Instead of it being Them and Us, it's We." It could be yet another mirage on Lake Ballard, tantalizingly out of reach. But for the moment in Menzies, the sentiment is real...