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N.Y. Jets Boost Stadium Offer to $720M

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The New York Jets offered a dramatically increased $720 million bid for the rights to build a football stadium in Manhattan's far West Side that is key to the city's bid for the 2012 Olympics.

2:34 p.m. - BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The Legislature's dalliance with Internet poker regulation ended abruptly Monday, when a bill to make North Dakota the first state to license cyberspace poker tables got only three votes supporting it.

What Websites Do to Turn On Teens

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...work.com
Games: Real.com, GameFAQs.com, PlanetDreamcast
Content: Lyrics.com, Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Shopping: LaCie.com, Wet Seal
Sports: MLB.com, race-deZert.com
To Susanna Stern, an assistant professor at the University of San Diego who works regularly with teens, one of the mo...

BravesBall-The Key Components!

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Braves Ball is all about Bobby Cox, Leo Mazzone, John Schuerholz, a dedication to a great minor league system and a teaching system. It's been about a focus on pitching first for most of those years. What is BravesBall? Take a moment and use the Comments section and let's talk...

Steroid Craving

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Does anyone else suddenly have an incredible craving for steroids?

Maybe it's just me. Every time I see someone using a drug in a movie or discussing a drug in the news, I get a powerful urge to imbibe.

After watching Ray, I had the rare (and luckily un

It's All About Expectations

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Take a look at the headlines following the steroid hearings on the Hill.

NYT: McGwire Offers No Denials at Steroid Hearings

WP: McGwire Doesn't Give Answers to Committee

ESPN: McGwire admits nothing

Almost no one led with the fact that Canseco was

margulies

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New Utah, UT - 2 hours ago
... games. At its most benign, it sends mixed signals about the propriety of gambling, whether on sports, slots, poker or pool. Others ...

ajax: a new approach to web applications

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Gimme Money, That's All I Want

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...nerate a group of results called snapshots -- editorial content and relevant information for a wide range of topics including local movie show times, sports statistics and current events. It will include options to find a flight or a restaurant.
The company is also introducing a tool to help users n...

What Websites Do to Turn On Teens

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...work.com
Games: Real.com, GameFAQs.com, PlanetDreamcast
Content: Lyrics.com, Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Shopping: LaCie.com, Wet Seal
Sports: MLB.com, race-deZert.com
To Susanna Stern, an assistant professor at the University of San Diego who works regularly with teens, one of the mo...

Toys to Please the Inner Geek

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.... The toys -- a minivan, an SUV and a microcar --are made of beech and their parts are interchangeable, so you can make a hybrid minivan-truck or SUV-sports car.
It's definitely a back-to-basics toy that's appealing to kids and appealing to adults, said Susan Hoffman, Automoblox's national sales man...

Yahoo Steps Into Blogs, Networks

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...engine, allowing advertisers to target their ads to a specific audience.
For example, a car company could choose to have Microsoft (MSFT) display its sports car link when a man types in certain keywords, and a link to an SUV model when a woman uses the search criteria.
Microsoft has until now outsou...

Wall Street stumbled Wednesday after crude oil prices shot up to another new high, passing $56 a barrel and raising the specter of higher inflation and interest rates. General Motors Corp.'s grim outlook for its first quarter took an added toll on the Dow Jones industrials, which fell more than 110 points.

Shares of Canadian tech standout Research In Motion Ltd., soared Wednesday after the maker of the ubiquitous Blackberry wireless e-mail devices said it would pay $450 million to settle a patent infringement suit.

Creating an effective selling process comes down to a few basic ingredients, the right method, and a willingness to adapt

SAT* Tip - March 19, 2005

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The SAT is one of several factors colleges consider in making their admissions decisions.

14. Michael Jordan

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7. Green Day

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3. NCAA Basketball

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You May Now Kiss the Buzz

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Do you hear the bells? Chapel bells are reverberating throughout the buzz and searches on "weddings" are up 18% over the last week...

Searches Gone Wild

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It's mid-March and that can mean only one thing -- spring break (+24%)...






Our weekly rumor and scandal roundup offers the usual delicious morsels of buzz that caused searches to spike in unexpected ways...

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John Smoltz threw the first pitch of a game instead of its last for the first time since 2001. Kevin Brown made his first pain-free start since signing with the Yankees before last season.

Google takes 'beta' off desktop search

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Israeli Army Sports Wrist Video

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Israeli Army Sports Wrist Video
Video communicator wristbands display images beamed from drone airplanes, allowing Israeli troops to home in on targets within seconds instead of minutes. A Palestinian lawmaker says the sci-fi Dick Tracy tech is overkill.
Associated Press
9:56 a.m. March 6, 2005 PDT

Best of February

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For the shortest month of the year, we decided to compile some short lists of the month's top searches...

She Walks the Line

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Bidding a heartfelt goodbye to prison-issue bologna sandwiches and a great big hello to the intoxicating scent of freedom, Martha Stewart emerged from the big house after five not-so-fabulous months of government-assisted living...

BlackBerry 7250 offers mobile professionals a single, integrated wireless solution with access to e-mail, corporate data, phone, Web and organizer applications

Can the Walkman make a comeback as it morphs into phones?

US sports TV channel ESPN has launched its own poker website, signing up more than 30,000 users in its first week.

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