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Plugged in: Dinner with the Masters of the Metaverse - May. 26, 2006

"People tend to attribute a promotion, or a great move to another company, to luck, or to being 'in the right place at the right time.' But far more often, it's the result of networking," Anderson adds.

"The more people know who you are and what you're good at, the 'luckier' you're likely to be.

Five months of networking, still no new job

Search is evolving. Ask.com has features others lack. Don't let habit prevent you from trying something new.

... next to that entry a little icon of binoculars. If you move your cursor over it, a miniature version of the EPA page pops up. Most of the other links on the results page also offer binocular screens.

"We're not building a rocket ship. We're building a better car. It's not what people will want in five years. It's what they want now."

... grew out of Pentagon-funded work at Rutgers University ... It clusters sites according to topic communities, using unique technology which Ask now calls ExpertRank.

Google's Up-and-Coming Rival

How tomorrow's nuclear power stations will differ from today's

Nuclear power | The shape of things to come | Economist.com

THE demands of security frequently square up against the desire for personal liberty. Most recently, on May 30th, the weighty matter seemed to rest on the scales of the European Court of Justice, Europe’s highest court. At issue was an existing European Union agreement to provide American officials with many personal details of airline passengers who cross the Atlantic.…

The war on privacy | Economist.com

Back in 2004, Stephen Kappes left his job at the Central Intelligence Agency as Deputy Director for Operations after a personnel disagreement with then Director Porter Goss. But in the spy game, as in life, things can change quickly. Now Goss has resigned as director and Kappes, a respected CIA veteran, has agreed to return to Langley to serve under the new director, Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden.

Kappes Will Return as CIA Deputy

In December 2005 I spent several hours a day in the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul interviewing some of the people who passed by.

Afghanistan: On the Brink

During the presidency of George W. Bush, the White House has made an unprecedented reach for power. It has systematically attempted to defy, control, or threaten the institutions that could challenge it: Congress, the courts, and the press. It has attempted to upset the balance of power among the three branches of government provided for in the Constitution; but its most aggressive and consistent assaults have been against the legislative branch: Bush has time and again said that he feels free to carry out a law as he sees fit, not as Congress wrote it. Through secrecy and contemptuous treatment of Congress, the Bush White House has made the executive branch less accountable than at any time in modern American history. And because of the complaisance of Congress, it has largely succeeded in its efforts.

This power grab has received little attention because it has been carried out largely in obscurity. The press took little notice until Bush, on January 5 of this year, after signing a bill containing the McCain amendment, which placed prohibitions on torture, quietly filed a separate pronouncement, a "signing statement," that he would interpret the bill as he wished. In fact Bush had been issuing such signing statements since the outset of his administration. The Constitution distinguishes between the power of the Congress and that of the president by stating that Congress shall "make all laws" and the president shall "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Bush claims the power to execute the laws as he interprets them, ignoring congressional intent.

Power Grab

At its best, the show's witty repartee brings to mind classic film noir. "Do you smoke after sex?" someone asks Brenda, to which she retorts with the old blue joke, "I don't know, I never looked." And when a combative colleague accuses her of being a bitch, she snaps, "If I liked being called a bitch to my face, I'd still be married."

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A novel about a mad bomber by John Updike —why not?

John Updike's Terrorist by Benjamin Strong | village voice