the buzz log
College Rankings, The Taliban, and Literary Rats: What's the Buzz
By Vera H-C Chan
Thu, July 30, 2009, 11:17 am PDT
Our picks from the day's hottest searches.
- US News College Ranking (up 5,424% in searches on Yahoo!). Princeton Review released its best 371 colleges, prompting users to check the more familiar one.
- The Taliban (+1,266%). The Sunni Islamist movement plans chaos for the Aug. 20 Afghan elections.
- Rats of NIMH (+723%). Much talk about a live-action adaptation of the 1971 children's classic, "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH."
- Carbon Motors (+410%). The company that builds fancy police cars will move from Georgia to Indiana.
- Swine Flu Symptoms 2009 (+140%) As work towards a vaccine continues, the flu's hitting Australia, Europe... and Capitol Hill.
Filed under: Health, Autos, War, College and Universities, Daily Recap
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