Martin's has been a long-running story
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FOXBOROUGH -- After Curtis Martin's first game as a Patriot in 1995, when he rushed for 102 yards and a touchdown on 19 carries, coach Bill Parcells declared that nobody should be sending his rookie running back to Canton, Ohio, just yet. Ten seasons and 12,352 rushing yards later, Martin is ensuring his own place in pro football's Hall of ...
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BLUSTERY conditions proved tough for former Neangar Park golfer Andrew Martin in the second round of the Australian Open yesterday.
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William Safire's column has appeared on the Op-Ed Page of The New York Times for more than 30 years.
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In March 2002, I made a bet with Martin Nisenholtz about the relative importance of weblogs and the New York Times. I was and am a blogger, and Martin worked then, as he does now, for the Times. For the actual terms of the bet, read the piece on the LongNow site, and a story I wrote to announce the bet. A few comments.  1. It seems now is the time to decide who won the bet, if either of us did. 2. The world that I hoped would come about did not. While blogs have broken many stories, they have not, in general, turned into the authoritative sources I hoped they would in 2002. When the blogosphere resembles journalism it's often the tabloid kind.  3. I wouldn't mind losing the bet. That is, I wouldn't mind if the Times fully embraced the web, and I suspect Martin wouldn't mind if blogs rose to the quality of the Times. 4. If the bet had been held a year later, it seems there would be a pretty good chance that Martin would have won the bet because they recently took down the firewall at the Times, allowing search engines to index the full content. In the past, articles would remain visible for a couple of weeks then you'd have to pay money to access them. I believe they have a special deal with Google and other crawlers that allow them to get past the membership wall. For most of 2007 the Times articles were behind the firewall, and were less likely to be pointed to (which is how they rise in rank at Google). 5. It certainly is fun to speculate, but the decision about who won belongs exclusively to the Long Now Foundation. They have to decide who determines what the top stories of 2007 are, and imho they should consult with search experts to determine how to do the queries. Apparently it makes a difference how you do it.  But ultimately it's their decision. 6. Whether Wikipedia has more or less results seems to be a sidebar to the bet, which only talks about blogs and the Times. 7. Another interesting sidebar is rich media. In 2002, before podcasting had taken hold, before YouTube existed, it would have been hard to forsee the story of the South Carolina beauty queen, or the Don't Tase Me Bro guy. Questions about the future are always framed in the context of the past. Did the question Martin and I asked have any value in 2007, or did it just say something about the world of 2002?   Update: Paul Boutin who arranged the bet, apparently in conjunction with Google (I didn't know this) in 2002, weighs in.
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A general malaise is overtaking what was once the hottest - and still the most controversial - trend in the food business.
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LONG POND, Pa. -- Mark Martin, the 48-year-old stock-car driver with snowy hair and a flock of crow's feet perched outside his eyes, is semi-retired and plans to stay that way. But he is not exactly puttering into the sunset on a golf cart.
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We thought we'd own this stock for a long time.
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Real estate in New York City has a way of looming large in matters of the heart.
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The littlest story may be the biggest.
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Self-proclaimed sham Mark Martin vowed to leave racing at the top of his game. A late-season surge has put him there, back in the chase for that elusive NASCAR title.
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By ADAM GORLICK; Associated Press  For one, high costs and low prices threaten a business that's been in the family for hundreds of years.    * * *   HATFIELD, Mass. - It's about 1:30 p.m., and Darryl Williams is finishing lunch.
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This story can make you money -- if it's true.
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It took over a decade for the writer's best loved book to be adapted to a bigger stage.
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Some version of the immigrantâs tale told in âGolden Doorâ is part of the family history of millions of Americans.
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Sometimes in Washington it takes a while for issues to ripen. Sometimes decades.
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The company is far from resting on its laurels.
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By O.K. Carter, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 18--Main Street antique store owner Jana Holland has never read or heard of the bestselling business book The Long Tail, but she's a good example of the trend the book describes.