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...shopping? Fuhgeddaboutit. Google had no way to distinguish websites that sold, say, CD players from those that simply wrote about them. Enter Froogle (at froogle.com) a Google offshoot devoted to shopping searches. Froogle weds the technologies that made Google great (ranking websites in order of usefulness, loading in a split second) with continually updated information from thousands of Web merchants. You can enter a price range and get pictures of products before clicking on the links. Best of all, merchants don't pay for prominent placement within results (a common practice at shopping search sites like Dealtime.com and Bizrate.com) Although...
Watkins has the kind of booming personality that refuses to escape notice. At 13, she was unimpressed that her principal split his time between running her Lutheran school and teaching the seventh-and eighth-graders. If his administrative duties called, he would simply send them out for an hour-long recess. She complained so loudly that the principal was divested of his two hats and left the school a year or so later. "He needed to pay attention," she remembers, "or we weren't going to learn." Then, as now, Watkins voices her views firmly, and she never filibusters...
...from the University of Texas at Austin magna cum laude with dual degrees in education and accounting. She taught high school business and authored sample problems for McGraw-Hill textbooks on the side. When Watkins was 14, her parents divorced. While they weren't the first Tomball couple to split up, it was a move radical enough that their church had refused communion to another divorce. But Harrington was hardly fazed. "I am going up there and kneeling, and I dare them not to give me communion," she told Watkins at the time. The minister did not pass...
...Rumsfeld, wife of the Defense Secretary, says the Cheneys are a lighthearted pair ready to roll on a moment's notice. "Just last week I called at 5 and said come over for meat loaf and mashed potatoes, and they were here at 6." About the well-publicized policy split between the Vice President and Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lynne says, "I don't joke with Alma Powell about it," noting about her good friend, "There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences...
...they think, are all about oil, or protecting Israel, or completing his Dad's unfinished business. Suggestions that the Administration is genuinely committed, say, to building democracy in the Middle East, are treated as a bit of a joke. And it is an open secret that this Administration is split. Even if Bush believes that nation building and extending a "just peace" is a priority, it is not clear that all his colleagues do. Here's one measure: the Pentagon seems so little concerned about supporting the new Afghan government that it handed off its contract to provide security...