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Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun [Live At Pompeii]

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Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun [Live At Pompeii]

The most anticipated laptops of 2012: Where are they now?

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As we enter the second quarter of 2012, it's time to round up our hot list of cool laptops and find out where they are. The IdeaPad Yoga is slated for later this year. (Credit: Lenovo) We're more than a quarter of the way through 2012 (believe it or not), so it's time to ask: where are those hot laptops we saw back at  CES ? The good news is, looking back at the products we saw back then, is that a surprising number of them weren't vaporware. Even better, a great number of them have already made their debut and have been reviewed on CNET. That feels like a better track record than some CESes past (hello, U1 Hybrid), but it's also not incredibly surprising. In fact, I could smell this coming a mile away on the show floor. That's because both Windows 8 and Intel's newer Ivy Bridge processors still haven't seen the light of day, and and the laptops generally on display at the show were models that were ready to go with current-gen tech

Bubba Watson wins the Masters

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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- On another typical Easter Sunday at the Masters, where mayhem, stress and a few miracles matched the frequency of the roars booming through this cathedral in the pine trees, a big-hitting lefty from Bagdad, Fla., ended up in Butler Cabin. CAPTION By Jack Gruber, USA TODAY Bubba Watson, a man of deep faith who was dressed in all white and wielded a driver painted pink, defeated Louis Oosthuizen on the second hole of a playoff to win the 76th edition of the first major of the season. Watson two-putted from 12 feet after hitting his second shot from out of the trees and from 155 yards away, curving it more than 40 yards to reach the putting surface of No. 10 in the fading light after a brilliant day of sunshine and little wind. Bursting into tears after tapping in the winning putt and hugging mom, Molly, and friends, including PGA Tour player Rickie Fowler, Watson, 33, who lost in a playoff in the 2010 PGA Championship, won his first major cham