In its place, you can now substitute an ad-free information page that you design: local weather here, prices for your stocks over there, and so on.
The weather here has been chilly for most of the last 10 days but for the climax of the tournament the conditions were all but perfect.
"In fact the weather here is quite favorable for this, because the humidity is accelerating the process.
Between the bleak, soggy weather here and the buildup for Sunday's Whitney Stakes, perhaps the best race of the summer for older horses, an important race for 3-year-olds on Saturday, has been overlooked.
"We encounter this feeling from the populace that perhaps once you've acclimated to the weather here or you've lived here for a certain amount of time, you're no longer really as vulnerable to the heat," says Kate Goodin, an epidemiologist at the health department of Maricopa County, in which Phoenix sits.
"It's great for the weather here, but people back there eat it every day, even in the heat," said Rosa Michelman, a Brooklyn resident of Indonesian background who has traveled to Indonesia often since she was a child.
But, the fall weather (or what passes for fall weather here) has caused me to sweat less, and that is a good thing indeed.
So far it has been over 100 degrees for 70+ days in Austin, which breaks some kind of old record for shitty weather here.
Underscoring General Rodriguez's concern, bad weather here last week grounded Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates for two days, preventing him from flying to visit several military outposts in remote parts of the country.
