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Larry Page should have been in a good mood. It was the fall of 2007, and Google's cofounder
was in the middle of a five-day tour of his company's European
operations in Zurich, London, Oxford, and Dublin. The trip had been
fun, a chance to get a ground-floor look at Google's ever-expanding
empire. But this week had been particularly exciting, for reasons that
had nothing to do with Europe; Google was planning a major investment
in Facebook, the hottest new company in Silicon Valley.
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The world-famous staple of the Sonoma-Marin Fair for 21 years starts tonight at at the Petaluma Fairgrounds.
Fair officials said this is the year the Chinese Cresteds' hold on the World's Ugliest Dog title may end.
A boxer, shepherd, Shar Pei, Chinese Pug and mutt or two are vying for the title this year, Sonoma-Marin Fair spokeswoman Vicki DeArmon said.
The purse for the winner has doubled to $1,000 this year, DeArmon said.
Pabst, a boxer-mix rescued from a shelter by Miles Egstad of Cit( 阅读全文)
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Apple has finally allowed pornography into the iTunes App Store. The application, called Hottest Girls, costs $2 and includes “2200+ images of topless, sexy babes and nude models”.
Why has Apple, a company which banned an e-book
application from the same store because it could be used to download
the Kama Sutra, suddenly started selling smut? Because the 3.0 iPhone
software update now allows age restrictions for applications. Also,
when I downloaded the application to test it, a new al( 阅读全文)
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Clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen rumbles into cinemas on Friday as a slam-bang exercise in shock-and-awe film.
Director Michael Bay ups the ante on his 2007 hit Transformers
by hurling even more massive amounts of swirling, twirling,
machine-crunching robot action onto the screen. Industrial Light
Magic’s photorealistic CGI ‘bots interact seamlessly with star Shia La
Beouf and other cast members against a backdrop of huge explosions and
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With all the Internet doctor rating sites, health insurance ratings and online board certification databases to check, many people today have a low tolerance for bad doctors.
But after your smiling physicians say goodbye and shut the office-room doors, there's a good chance that they wish they could rate you.
A frequently cited 1999 study in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that doctors find up to 15 percent of patient visits "difficult."
In a more recent article in the same journ( 阅读全文)
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A bit of consolidation going on in the video game biz today, as ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks (Elder Scrolls, Fallout 3), is acquiring id Software, developer of the classic Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein franchises.
While responsible for some of the most important PC games of all time (and essentially creating the first-person shooter with 1992's Wolfenstein 3D), iD has struggled in recent years to find the same relevance among console gamers and develop new propert( 阅读全文)
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For the second time this month, researchers report success using a novel type of anticancer pill to curb the growth of inherited tumors that often defy standard treatment. Called olaparib, the experimental pill is a member of a new class of drugs called PARP inhibitors that prevent unstable cancer cells from repairing themselves.
Two-thirds of 19 patients with cancer caused by mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes responded to treatment with olaparib, and in more than half, tumors shrank or sto( 阅读全文)
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Bed Bath Beyond Inc (BBBY.O) posted an unexpected rise in quarterly profit by cutting costs to offset slumping demand for home furnishings, and the retailer's shares rose more than 6 percent.
"The beat really was on the expense line although they had good operating performance across the board," said Bernstein analyst Colin McGranahan, who has an "outperform" rating on the stock.
"They have absolutely tightened the labor model up. I think they're reducing advertising costs, which had gone way( 阅读全文)
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Transportation investigators Wednesday discovered "anomalies" in an essential control circuit of a track where a fatal crash between two Washington subway trains killed nine people.
Each section of the transit system's track contains a circuit that transmits and receives signals that generate speed commands for trains, said Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board. She said the circuits are "vital providing information to the operators and the train itself when on automatic."
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The plumes of gas and ice shooting from the south pole of the
Saturnian moon Enceladus contain sodium salts, which is the best
evidence so far that the satellite harbors a liquid water ocean.
NASA’s Cassini probe
observed the salts in Saturn’s outermost ring, which is believed to be
composed of material ejected from Enceladus. That news, published
Wednesday in Nature, is sure to excite life-hunters hoping to find extraterrestrial microbes within our solar system.
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