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...Silicon Valley garage (O.K., that part's familiar), Google inflated with the Internet bubble and then, after everything around it collapsed, kept on inflating. Google's search engine--devised by Brin and Page when they were Ph.D. candidates at Stanford--was better than the rest and, without any marketing, spread by word of mouth from early adopters to, eventually, your grandmother. Search became Google; google became a verb. The world fell in love with the fun, effective, blindingly fast technology and its boy-wizard founders. Ultimately, the company even found a business model--advertising--and last year made a profit...
...Michael Elliott's column, "Be Careful What You Wish For" [Jan 23], referred to a new book by political scientist Michael Mandelbaum in which the author argues that the U.S. has provided the world a degree of security by damping down the prospect of global war and opposing the spread of nuclear weapons. But Elliott's piece was simplistic; he omitted historical information about Iran. You cannot offer a one-sided view of the serious issue of Iran's nuclear-enrichment program while ignoring the reasons that created the current political situation there. Iran is one of numerous countries...
...less distracting than I expected. The spirit of the movie can be summed up in its soundtrack. Jack Johnson wrote and performed a set of new songs for the film. The lyrics narrate the action with words such as “my mind begins to spread its wings, there’s no stopping curiosity” and “the trouble I find is the trouble finds me.” Johnson’s music is laidback and lulling, falling nicely into the background. Don’t be fooled by the “Show...
...final heat of the campaign, most people in the country had little idea what had occurred. But Coretta King, alight with gratitude, told her family and friends, who told others, who spread the word. Dr. King's father, Martin Luther King Sr., himself a renowned Baptist preacher, had come out a few weeks before for Vice President Nixon, mainly on religious grounds. But this episode was enough too convince him that he could vote for a Catholic candidate after all. "Because this man was willing to wipe the tears from my daughter (in-law's) eyes" he said...
...though Tel Aviv refuses to confirm a nuclear weapons program at all). But taking out Iran's nascent weapons factories will take a lot more than a single bombing raid or a few missiles. Drawing the obvious lesson from the attack on Osirak, Iran's leaders have spread their country's nuclear facilities between at least 20 known sites and buried many of them deep underground. Inflicting serious damage would require multiple surgical air strikes. "We are speaking about a large program dispersed over a very large area," says Yiftah Shapir, a military analyst at the University of Tel Aviv...