Leandro Barbosa won the NBA’s Sixth Man Award on Monday after a season in which he averaged 18.0 points and helped lead the Phoenix Suns to the second-best record in the league.
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Fileplanet Editor-in-Chief bemoans Apple’s hands-off policy to securing great Mac game content, which he feels is costing the company. “For nearly a decade I’ve been a Mac fan who hasn’t bought a Mac, solely because of the game situation.” He makes some suggestions on what Apple should do, including - gasp - copying Microsoft. Just a little.
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Still, one VP speaks from personal experience: “I got the job as head of global marketing at KPMG in large part because top management knew me - and they knew me from the golf course,” she says.
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Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Ever Will
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So, we code web sites by hand. And one day, it hit us: our web workflow was wonky. We
’d have our text editor open, with Transmit open to save files to the server. We’d be previewing in Safari, running queries in Terminal, using a CSS editor, and reading references on the web. “This could be easier,” we realized. “And much cooler.”
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The Dutch may well follow other European countries in banning tobacco smoking in restaurants, cafes and bars, but a pot shop owner says it should still be possible to smoke dope.
“It is ridiculous to think that a smoking ban would be the end of coffee shops,”
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“Take a Mini Cooper and stretch it out to about double its size, put a hot tub in the back and you have yourself the Mini XXL, a six-wheel, four-door six-seat stretch limousine with all the benefits of a regular stretch limousine but with that superior fuel economy and handling that’s so in demand with the limo-riding public.”
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Imagine a newspaper with over 2,000 writers, researchers and copy editors, yet no supervisors or managers. No deadlines; no meetings; no chain of command. That seemingly chaotic nonstructure isn’t recognizable of the hierarchical editorial control of old media, yet that’s exactly how Wikipeida, an essential source for the VA Tech shootings, works.
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The nationwide drive — an annual pre-summer crackdown given greater prominence this year — is aimed primarily at women whose coats are seen as too tight, trousers excessively short or hejabs (headscarves) overly loose.
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